Plymouth Weekly Democrat, Volume 4, Number 3, Plymouth, Marshall County, 19 February 1863 — Page 1

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II. K. Tiiaic rX'sille. I., Ft. W. A: C. II. II. Time Table. WINTFR ARRANGEMENT. K71RTU11 OF TRAILS FROM FLTMOCTH STATION. EASTWARD DOUSD TRAISA. Dvv Expreß and Mail 11:18 A.M. Nisht Express 10:21 P. M. Fast Stock 5:30 r. M. Lire Stock and Ex. Freight 11:40 P. M. Local Freight 120 P.M. WESTWARD B UND TRAISS. D iy Express and Mail 7:02 P. M Nicht Ex res-, 6:47 A. M Local Freight 4:5:1 P. M Through Freight 3:56 A. M. Fait Freight, - .3:0; P, M. S.R. EDWARDS, Agent. C. I. A C. II. K. Time TaWc. SUMMERARRANGEMENT. F. VSTWARD. LaveLaPor. ihul.vj g.45 a. M. (Suii4js Lxcepted,)) Arrive at Plymouth, A. 31. WESTWARD. Leive Plymouth .3:00 P. M. Arrive at La Porte 4:50 P. M. Trains run br L:i Porte time, which is kept at F.. WiN Jewelrv storr , and U 15 minutes slower than P., Ft. W. i C. R. R. time. II. II. DRUL1NER, Supt. Attorneys. RZEVE Sl C APRON. AJtorners and Not irlea. Plymouth, Morshall Co., In 1., pnetice in M irhU and adjoining counties. RKrrrnsto Rahcuck & Co.. Phelps, Dodge t Co.,New York, Cool-v.Farwell & Co., Go- V . a r -1 1 g Jt Bro.. Cincigo. Lou lon V lo., i nua., vBenette k G Pi:fchiirsh. Hon. A. L. 0.bo.: , CircuH Ju Ige, Laportlnd JOHN S. BENDE , AttnruT at Lw U"al Estate Agent, Knox, Knox. Ind. . Collections, Tax paving and examination or Titlei, promptly attended to. n3-ly DR. T- A. BORTOM, Phyiri.in.ind Surtreon. oftice on Michigan street, estMe,over HillV il-ikery. wlierc he miybe nan!ted during ofFo. hours. J. J VIM ALL, !I jnjeipithicPliTician. Pi'-.'cular.ittentionpaid to tufetrie practie, and chronic diseases of rom"n, and li-'eaafaofehil. Iren, office over C. t.ilmr ,rr, corner Michigan and Laporte tsreets.whe he mav be consulted at oil ho'irs. DR. O BA1RD, "3riutf. of J.:TiM n M-lical College.) residing and oific n.rarShilt Mill. firemen, It.d. If:a? Iri i"V. Oii. A. O . D DRTON. tir H Pnnsf. P',iu "', Ililimi. JVhole or :- uO.i! -tf of !l i ted on the" iiio5t anrrovft :!..n. .-;.'c!l r.tti nt iu p:id to tlie pres-'rv 'i !t ofthe. n itnral t.eth, uid irregularUv of ("e'-.lrenN teeth orreeted- Fanrs and Ii ;i.-!ih T?th et'n -t.-l with or without Chloroform. Can bee Mi-oilred ;it hi-ow.i ? at any timr exf!tou M iel iv :iud Ti'o(!:iys. O :iV in Michigan siv.ir, ,west si'le, over Hiir iltW'. l'' EDVARDS HD'J3HPsyaisuUt. Ind. V. C. Ehvirl', Proprietor H. G. D!C'?0'.' Ä Co.. DeiTer in htHw.ir ' ev-r !-'--irfIn, alsu store, tin, s! f.i !rvn, ,er wai e. - r. - vi Dlei in I! ir liar of v.-i v d--fin-M-'ii, sn,: Bl inl iirfT- C I'in. S'lvl -1 1 i; :llid Ci.J'J W4re, Mie!dg-r s'' ---!. IiV Go;ds vc (r;n'eries. J GnCVNLEE. Di'ern 'rr;.. n of i!l kin 1, n"eries, T'ar etc., Michigan !trt, Plymoath, lud. C. ? W1 IR. Dtt'rrin ) x Goo t, Groceries, etc., pouth side I. a P-r: t ret. SJ'JSSBA'JM , ÜL DAVIDSON, De 'cr?a Croceries and Prvisiens, east side of Michigan street. Uools ?"ll4. E. PAUL. Djalerin Uootand hoes. manufactuiR all kind ofliT.ne work in hi line, Michigan street, Ply month, I rid. O. BLA1N Sl Co. Prz?'.st?and confectioners, west sidcof Michigan street, Plym--uth, Ind. T. A. LEMON, Healer in dru, medicines, notions, literary w igaziiirs. papers, etc., north aide Lupoite street, Plymouth, Ind. Wll t fllIllJllvl'. J OHN M HCEMKER, Oele r in lohe.-, clocks and jewelry, P ymoutli In l.,iv c iHt . fitly on h.in J cloek, vatches br-nt pins, ear riiis, fi'iger rings, lockets, etc Clo.k in 1 watches, etc., repa;red in the bes tauiitfr possible. I5jiiIMinMICHiEL GINZ, BrV.r and i.iir lre"er, (Wert side Michigan tri't oyer Patrons store) Plymouth, ,1ml. ErrytLifj'i the above btisinessatteuded to by we in the let style. A V s i fx i 1 1 1 1 1 c i iijf . C. HA3LANGER Sl BRO'S, 1I inafcturers of Tiigons, carriages etc. Black S. intliiug, ; tinting ,:nd graining JoneJoorder Ijivorv. N. B. KLINGER, - nr.-tur Huckfye Liverv," fippositc Edward II "is , Plymouth, I ml. n27ly T- MCDONALD, leal estate agent and notary public, office in ciuii'j li.irlvr.ire store, Plymouth, Ind. Draws deed, mortgage, bond, and agree wciitä, selli fandä, exainincstitlesand furnislies AUitracMof the amef paystaxeBanl redeem told for InM

Speech or Mr. Conway. Republican, in Congres!, A few days since Mr. L'osytav, of Kan8 .is, one of the mo;t ultra, as well as one of the ablest, of the Iiepublican members of Congress, made a strong speech in favor of peace and a stoppage of the war. The speech is eaiJ to have the approval of Gov. Andrew, Charles Sumner.Wendell Phillips, Horace Greeley, and other leading abolitionists, who held a caucus in Washington just before it vas delivered. We take the

following extracts from it, which 6hows its character : HE 18 AG AI? BT RE-ÜXION Sir, I am nol in favor of restoring the constitutional relations of the slaveholders to the Union, nor of the tar to that end. On the contrary, I am utterly and forever opposed to both. 1 am in favor of the Union as it exists to-day. I am in favor of recognizing the loyal States as the American nation, based as they are on the principle of freedom for all, without dislinrlion of rr.ee, color or distinction. 1 believe it tobe the manifest destiny of the America i dittion to ultimately control the American Continent on this principle. 1 conceive, therefore, that the true object of this war, is to revolutionize the ational Government by resolving the North into the nation, and the South into a distinct public body, leaving us in a posi tion to pursue the latter as a separate S ate. 1 delieve that the direction of the war to any other end is a perversion of it. calculated to subvert the very object it was designated to elfeet. HIS UNIONISM. I have never allowed myself to indulge in that Fupirstuioua idolatry of the Union so prevalent among simple but honest people, nor that polilk-al cant about the Union so prevalent among the dishonest ones. I have simply regarded it as afi im of Government, to be valued in pr portion to its merits as an instrument of national jrosjeiity and power. tue sout:i independent. Tiio war which ha - come hi between the Xottli and he Souib, has remh ud them s paia:e and in dependent p iwers in the woild. Tiiis is tin." necessary h'pil elfeet of evil war anywhere. It runl. s the heiliger nl pniti.'jj independent for tho time heinj, and, unless the one s:iiciindn to the .tlur, they continue independent of t aeh :her forever. The piineiple is laid down by Vattvl as .I!ow-: When a nali n becomes dui.Ied into iwu p.irL'i, absolutely independent, and no !ui:g-r acknowledging a com non S'.ipeiior, he t..to i - i!iehvd, :i:i I the war between .ho l.vo parties s t;m Is upon the same o ;?i 1. in tv-ty r. j et, as a public war e: Wi en ! w. di.ivu til nali -us." Bo.k 111, h.-ip it. j i:s. i-. tot t b Yonchied at, therefore. I:-: .- ! j ' i.ed a ül proii'Utid a jnrit as Ut ! tr.i''o mni:-r foin Pennsylvania, vir. 8 eeius.J isl.oal 1 i xpress tho same pinion. r? :v TlllZ I'EMiil K.V y TFiUK T 1 1i E UNION. The Demo tiioy v ili not, of coiuse, listen to separation for an instant. Such a sug 'stion in tin ir cm s, is tie.sor a prpo äitio nlo dissolve the Union for whieh one night to be hanged. They expect the iiuesti'n, whether Union shall be reat'rd iy force oi compromise, t be submitted to the people in the next election, and u on that to carry the country. Their plan is to oppose the adminiliation on its antislavery polü-y. They put in isue the conlication ct, the Missouri emancipation act, and the President's proclamation of emancipation. Theso measures they prouounce unconstitutional, deny thwir validity and ever) thing done, or to be done in pursuant of them. In addition to this, they attack ihi administration on account of the suspension ol' the writ of habeas corpus, false imprisonnntit, corruption, imbecelity, &c, and a thousatd other incidents. But on the war and the integrity of the Union, they are like adamant itself. They claim to favor the war for the Bake of the Union, but to bo for compromise rather than war. They say very truthfully that the Republicans have tried force for two year.", and exhausted the country, and upon this claim the adoption of theirmethod as all that is left to be done. , This is the manner in which tho politicians of the country propose to terminate this great conflict. THE GREAT CONSERVATIVE PA It TT. An alliance seems recently to have been effected to this end between certain elements heretofore hostile. The I'order State politicians are the remnant of the old Whig and Know Nothing parties, who, all their lives, cherished an intense hatred of the Democracy. Th-ay now unite with that party to effect this object. The Republicans of the Albany sehool, under the sagacious leadership of Mr. Weed, who for long years fought the Van Rur m regency, and finally broke it down through the agency of free soil, are also hand in glove

with their old opponents. Thus the army of the Democracy takes the field for the next great political battle, supported on the left by the followers of Clay and Ci ittend, n, and on the right by the special friends of Wm. II. Seward. Such a - host may well feel confident. It is a combination for victory. The cleoents have been well shaped. Not in vain have the Border State Politicians thronged the Hall of the Presidential Mansion. Not i vain has

the discreet Secretary of Str.tc incurred the reputation of having become imbecile. Not in vain has tho whole administration suffered the odium of drifting with the tide for lack of policy. They could well afford to dispense with the apj lause of the radicals, while they silently directed that under current whieh was to refer the gigantic tpiestion, with which they would not grapple, to the decision of another Presidential election. THE CON'EKVATIVES WILL TRIL'MFII. The chief element in the accomplishment of this reactionary movement, is the war which the administration is conducting for the restoration of the Union. The war is indeed the trump card of the Democracy; not war for emancipation; not war for conquest, but Mr. Lincoln's war for the Union. Thev have no fear that it will perve the end of abolitionism. It has passed that stage. Its results are now in their keeping. All they wish is its prolongation. In the fust place, it holds the nation pledged to the principle that the Union i3 intact, and the Constitution open to amendment through Southern votes. In the next place tho responsibility of it being with the Republicans, it weakens them sadly in the elections. And in the third place, its effect is to wear away an 1 depress the slaveholders, and dispose them in favor of conciliation. Tne war in whatever aspect it may be piesented, is an admirable intiunicnt for them. If the war should happen to meet with unexpected success, and defeat tho i bullion, the slaveholders will be brought back jüsl in time to join them in the election. It it should lag, and accomplish no results as tiow eems likely, this will inevitably insure .hem a tiiumph in the popular vote. Ti.eir theoiy is, and it is a sound one, that the two forces. Abolition and Secession, now in deadiy conflict, have only to be permitted to continue the fight long enough to wear each other out, ni.d cause the politieal waters to subside to their former level. Thus, cn the basi of the war, they have a complete mastery of tho situation, and no earthly power mii prevent their success. THE JIIMV CONSERVATIVE. Nevertlu lees, without reference to the result of the war, I consider the chances of the co use i vatives in tho election, far superior to that of tiie administration. Gie.it reliance is placed by tho latter on the vote of the soldiers; but, in my opinion this is delusive. The Soldiers will be affected in like manner with the ret of the people, and, moreover, will be tired if military service, and anxious to i etui n home. They wiil bo dissatisfied from a thousand cruises, and desdio a change. The suf.'ei'ing and indignation yet to be enmmderod by the unlimited isuj of an ii redeemable paper currency, will of itself, overwhelm I he ;dmitiliatioii party, and sink it deeper than plummet ever sounded. But the Democrats, in my judgment, safely caleulate that they can take issue on any one ol a hundred necessary incidents of the war, and defeat their opponeuts by a large majority. THE PROCLAMATION A FAILURE. Many suppose that the i fleet of tho proclamation of emancipation will bo to to thoroughly, epeedily and completely annihilate, and extirpate slavery, that the slaveholders will have no longer a motive to act together. This is an egregious mistake. The proclamation will have no such i Heel. Its constitutionality is denied. It is etill unexecuted, and its validity undetermined. The whole Judiciary Department is to render its decision upon it; and, in the meanlioie, it is to be the coutroling baue in a popular election for President. This state of things will undoubtedly inspire the slaveholders with a more resolute purpose than ever. Their effort will not, as heretofore, be to prevent the Abolitionist fiom ft oeing their slaves, as a distant and speculative proposition, but to reecue him from the grasp of the enemy already actually laid upon him. It will redouble their will and bring out every intent energy. 8UMXER II IS M AON US APOLLO. The Senator from Massachusetts, (Mr. Sumner,) who has lately been elected to serve another term of six years in the body he so long adorned, should, in this crisis, point us fo th proper action. His purely Noiihern character, his great abilities, his lofty aspirations, his sacrifices for freedom, the entire confidence of his State so spontaneously bestowed upon him and that State the nobleU in Americaall single him out as one authorized and required to speak with a decisive voice on this great occasion.

There are also in the House gentlemen whose words on this momentous theme the country will listen to with intense interest. The honorable member from Pennsylvania, (Mr. Thaddeus Stevens,) one of the truly great men of America full of learning and wisdom tried by long years of arduous service in this cause, who has never faltered, and is now n elected in his district by overwhelming numbers, stands foremost amons those of whom the nation will expect deliverance ficm the dangers which encompass it. Let these men, and st'ch as these, speak, and tell the country what to do in this hour of transcendent peril. Nevertheless, I cannot refrain from expressing my individual ojinion that the true policy of tlie North is to terminate the war at at once. The longer it continues t ie worse our situation becomes. Let the two Houses of Congress adopt the following resolutions : u Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives, d:e., That the Executive

be, and he is hereby requested to issue a general order to all commanders of forces in the several military departments of the United States to discontinue oifensive operations against the enemy, and to act for the future entirely on the defensive. Resolved, Thatthe Executive be, and he is further requested to enter into negotiation with the authorities of the Confederate States with reference to a cessation ol hostilities, basad on the following propositions: 1. Recognition of the independence of tho Confederate States. 2. A uniform 6ysteni of duties upon imports. o. Free trade between the two Stales. 4. Free navigation of the Mississippi river. 5. Mutual adoption of the Monroe doctrine." CAN LIVE TOGETHER. I entirely disagree with those who assert that it is impossible that the North and South could live peaceably 6ide by side, because there are no natural boundaries between the two, such as the Rocky Mountains or the Atlantic Ocean. This is a bugbear with which we impose upon ourselves. The people of the North and South can never become foreign nations to each other in tha sense in which the French and English or Russians are. They are sprung from the same origin, 6peak the same language, possess a common literature, inherit similar politics Mid religious views, and inhabit regions closi lv connectby natural and ?.rtilicial ties. They will, therefore, both bo always American. The only great difference between them is of a social and political nature, namely, that vhich arise from the existence of African shivery in one, and i s ab -ence in tho other. The fact, however, offers no obstacle whatever to sueh a separation as is involved in independent political jurisdiction; on the conti ary it greatly facilitates it. Before the Federal Union was established all the States were independent, and associated under articles of confederation, in the nature ol a treaty. The argument. n w adduced to show the impracticability of present separation between the North and the South, go wilh equal force fo prove the impossibility of what then ac tuallv existed and was accepted in the case of the thirteen original fcjtales of tho Union. The laitei a'ood toward each other precise Iy as the North and South would tand should they stop the war and enter into treaty. It would simply be resolving the North and South into Confederate States resuming, a- to them, the old basis of the confederation. This would bo the whole of it. It is, therefore, a very simple oper ation. I do not suggest this, however, on the idea that should it ever be adopted, the sepj ration it implies would be permanent. I believe that it would insure an ultimate re-union on an anti slavery basis. I have confidence in the inherent vitality of Northern civilization. I have no fear to set in competition with that of the South. Let them proceed sido by aide in the race of empire, and we shall see which will triumph. M Now is the time to get up clubs," a the boy said when tho printer's dog chased him. Why is a fashionable lady's dress like an iron-clad 6hip ? Because it is heavily pla(i)lod. Why is a lady who has bought a sable capo at half price, like a soldier absent cn leave? Because she has get her fur low. A fur fast going out of fashion the furlounh. " Isn't it astonishing," said a wealthy individual, "that a large fortune was left mo by a person that had only seen me once.' " It would have been much more astonishing," said a wag, "if ho had left it to you after seeing you twice." Be furo to road Conway's speech.

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Thurlow Weed on Horacb Gkeelet. To the Editors or the Journal: It is not my designn to 'keep before the people' and but for the material misrepresentation of two or threejournals, I would not intrude, even to express what I feel most gratefullj .he mor.) than kindly; the generous constructions of the press, irrespective of party. To the letters of troops of kind friends, I shall endeavor to reply indivdually. The Rochester Express and Oswego Times says: Mr. Weed's opinion may be founded, as he avers, on deep convictions. At this time, when he retires from a position where his cppc8.tiou to the administration was dam aging the cause of the country, we cannot discuss that question, but take it for granted that personal feelings and motives in no degree dictated a course which gave so much pain to those who have so long re garded the veteran editor as a safe coun selor and sagacious leader." It is strange that any reader of the Journal in the face of fact, should hazird such a statement. My point has been distinctly, that our danger arises from the blind and frantic course of the New York Tribune and Independent, the extreme views of Messrs. Sutuner, Phillips, Garriet Smith, and their followers, by whom the administration is beleaguered, importuoed, persecuted. I have not"opposed," but in all the ways and means in my power sustained the administration. So far from havii g personal feeliuos or motives other than lriendlr, my relations with the President and eve ry member of his cabinet are cordial. Thev are all exerting themselves to the b28t of their ability, and with integrity and fidelity, to re establish the authority of the government. I have referred frequently to the incendiary principles of the New York Tribune, because that journal, by its Tast circulation, exerts a malign influence throughout the whole North. I aga n admonish my countrymen to shake off this incubus to emancipate, themselves from their mental thralldom, befoie all is lost. Mr. Greeley, infatuated victim of the wildest ambition wiil soon, amid the "crash of worlds and tlie wreck of matter," be seized with a "re morse that comes too late." I speak not idly. This "Architect of ruin" has much to answer for. First, while Slidell, Tooms. Mason, Davis. e"c, efe, were maturing their scheme for rebellion, and the Gulf States, under their instruction, were seceding, Mr. Greeley approved; justified und invited them logo forward wilh their treasonable designs! Here is the evidence from his own Tribune, tud in his own language: From the Tribune November C, 1SG0. 4,If the cotten Stalos shall become satisfied that they can do better out of ihe Union than in it, we insist on letting them go in peace. The right to accede may be a revolutionary one, but it exists nevertheless. We must ever resist the right of any State to remain in the Union and nullify tho laws thereof. To withdraw from the Union is quite anoth er matter; whenever a considerable section of our Union shnll deliberately resolve to go out, we shall resist all coercive measures designed to keep it in. We hope never to live in a republic whereof one section is pinned to another by bayonets." From the Tribune Nov. ÜG, 1800. If the Cotton States unitedly and earnest v wish to withdraw pereefully from tl e Union, we think they should and would he allowed to do so. Any attempt to compel them by force to remain would bo contrary to the principles enunciated iu the immortal Declaiation of Independence, con trary to the fundamental ideas cn which huoian liberty is based." From the Tribune December 17, ISG1. "If it the Declaration of Independence justified the eeession horn the British em pire of three millions of colonists in 1776, we do not see why it would not justify the secession uf five millions of southrons from the Union in 1861. From the Tribune of Feb. 23, 1 86 1 "Whenever it shall be clear that the great body of the southren people have become conclusively alienated from the Union and anxious to escape from it, WE WILL DO OUR BEST TO FORWARD THEIR VIEWS." Here then, in the outbreak of the rebel! ion, is the Tribune "doing its best to forward their views." Their "views" were forwarded with fatal celerity. We all see with what consequences. When the rebellion, thus encouraged, became a realily, the Tribune, with an insolence peculiarly its own, assumed a dictatorship over the government and the aimy. Our first calamity was occasioned by its insane cries of ''On to Ricnmond." Aller the inglorious defeat of Bull Run, Mr. Greeley leeame spasmodically repent

ant, confessing that he had done wreng, '

and promising to mind his own business. B;it this promise was soon fogolten and the Tribune became as arrogant at ever, and ere long its in flat fd editor put forth n edict in the name of hnndreds of thousands addressed to the President of tha United States demanding a change of policy in his administration of the government. And now we are called to witness, with amazemant, a new phase of charater astartlincr change of switch! The editor of the New York Times, in a carefully prepared article, charged Mr. Greeley with seeking, through M. Mercier, the French Minister, foreign intervention! And, still worse, the accusation goes so far as to implicate Mr. Greeley in a correspondence with Mr. Vallandingham! We venture to ssy that not ten of the Tribune's hundred thousand subscribers, or any outside authority, would have believed ei-; ther of these statements. And yet both are virtually almitted in the Tribune of yesterday: But here follows jthe exact truth wilh regard to our views on the whole eudject, which M. Mercier, or Mr. Yallandigham, or any one else can have for the moderate prices of six cents in Washington, or three it he purchase in New York: 1. We believe that the war for the Union has now entered upon a phase which in all probability must prove fanal that we are on ihe eve of movements, combinations, attacks, battles, whereof the result must be w-ell nigh decisive. 2. We believe that the rebels are about to be badly whiped at several vital points, aud that their defeats will be so conclusive that any impartial empire 'would advise them that their enterprise is hopeks, and they ought to give it up. 3. We belive that, if our armies do not whip theirs will whip ours. 4. Wc believe that, should they be successful and we defeated in the general results of th.9 campaign now opening, impartial third parlies will say that we ought to consent to peace on the best attainable terms. Whether wo shall take that council or renew the struggle, as a united pecple who have come to understand and to accept its real character, the cost and suffering involved, events will determin. 5. But we believe that the time will come we do not say how soon, as that must depend on the results of conflicts yet future when the great powers of Europe will mediate not by blows nor by menances, but by representations against a continuance of tha struggle as fruitless, wasteful butchery, and urge a settlement m the interests of humanity and cornmere. Thus the Tribune pronounced that we must subdue tho rebellion by "movements, compinations, and attacks" now "on the eve,'or call upon the ''great powers of Europe" to interfere "against the continuance of ihe struggle as fruitless, wastful butcherv, and urjre a settlement in the interest of humanity and commerce;" In simple direct, unequivocal language, Mr. Greeley says tint if we are not successful in the campaign now opening our cause ai d countiy are lost, and that we must have peace, upon the best attainable terras." This is saying openly and publicly, to the enemy, that they have only to hold out two or three months longer to secure the triumph of rebellion and slavery. Had an opposition journal of member of Congress uttered these sentiments the Tribune would have demanded their removal to Fort Lafayette, Mr. Greeley evades, though he does not deny, that he has communicated with the Minister and Mr. Yallandigham, suggesting mediation to the former, and peace to the latter. In entering upon the question of mediation with a foreign Minester, he takes issue, in violation of law, against the government. And in opening a correspondence with a Representative whom he H constantly denouncing as a trai or, ha commits an offence I leave others to name and charncterize. And now I have Mr. Greeley, the col urns of his own Tribune being the exponent and witness, as first inviting the withdrawal of ihe cotton States, and a const'. quent divssion of the Union; and then, af ter a hundred thousand lives have been sacrificed, and twelve hundred millions of treasure squandeied, demanding the intervention of the great powers of Europe in favour of "peace upon the best terms attainable." for the sake of "humanity and commerce. An old negro, crossing the river from a nejrro dance, lost his oars and came tiear swamping. In great terror ho fell down on his knees and exclaimed: " O, massa Lord, if eher you gwine to help old Ira, novv's de time." Those who anglo continually for praist get bitten oftener than their bait does.

Iiidiuim vs. 31natiitit(s. The fol.owing extract we copy froui ihe Springfield (Mass.) Republican o; Jan, 31st, to give our Republk-an friends, who enteitam such an immense feeling of admiration and respect for "the old granite Stale," some idea of the estimation in which the "brains of the country" holf our gallant Hoosier State: "Congress ought to change the name of the department t f the Interior to Departmeent of Indiana." Nobdv semstoet into it at head or tail, that does not hail from that State the meanest, after all, in the West, and one of the meanest in the while free Union. Why should it have mote fevers and agues aud ignorance and bad polities than any of its sisters? Perhaps because it was settled, in a greater degree, by the poor whites ar.d small slaveholders of the South. And yet there is Schuyler Colfax, and he favors a good deal that is otherwise intolerable." The Springfield Republican is probably the leading papex in the New England

States; it certainly has the largest circulation and has good reasons to claim to b par excellence, the organ of all YanXeedem. Its sentiments as expressed above, represent the feeling animating the whole tribe of Yankees in regard to our S ate '"the meanest, after all, in the West." It must be particularly gratify ig to our citizens to have this flattering encomium pronounced upon us by the oigan of a race who are now grinding tli3m in the dust with th-.-ir high tariffs; duties, fcc; but of course, being descended from the "poor whites and small slaveholders of the South," we arc incapable of appreciating the grace with which this comes from the great and infel- ; ie-ctual State of Massachusetts, which has been mainly instrumental tu plunging u 3 into our present difficul;ies adroitly saddled lbs burden of the war upon u. and is now grcwing rich over our ruin, without furnishing either men or merns to any extent to help us out of our trouble. 'Indiana may' be afflicted with "moe fevers agues ignorance and bad politics" than Massachusetts, but its malaria never induced it to attempt to "bhake" itself out of the Union as did Massachusetts in oldm times, nor its "bad politics" drive off, or give a pretext for going, of sovereign State from the alfil atiwn of the Union. Indiana, despite her fever and ague, has sent better men, and rr.ore of them in proportion to her population, than any other State in tlie Union. Massachusetts, with all her trickery, her purchase of Ca'if.r::ia recruits, her evasions and delays, hs l ot yet fully responded to the call of the government for troops, while Indiana has exceeded the demand made upon her. Indiana's soldiers are found upo. the soil of every southern State; their bones are bleaching upon every battle field fought during the war, and the valor of her so!d ers are the praise and admiration of ibe country. She has immortalized herself in fighting out a war of "Yankee manufacture" and receivee her leward in such contemptuous sneers as the one quoted ab.ve, from the authors of her troubles. Massachusetts, and all the New England tve, have made nionev out of the war, and hav e af given less to sustain it than any other State, and they possess "brains" enough, and souls little enough, to grow rich out of any national calamity, to coin money out of their country's blood. And the immediate cause of this tirade ayam t Indiana, is the fact that two places i i tl Department of the Interior are ocenpied by 'ignorant" sons of Indiana, while New England has a surplus stock of "1 rains" which she would accommodatingly pjjue at the disposal of the country iu llnir plates. The charming coolness and fTroritery with which they bat of their supori r intelligence, displayed hi their successful schemes of shifting the but dens of the country upon their neighbors, and monopolizing the profits and tmolum- its r themselves, commands our ndnr ration, and must have a tendency to din i: i-h u.e feeling in the WVst for the smbl i-hme.i: of a new confederation leaving New Enirland out in the cold. Wayne Sentinel. While his mother lives, a n.an has one friend on earth who will not de ort him when he i needy. Her atVeeih n tl w from a pure fountain, and ceasvs nlv ft the ocean of eternity. It is worth your while to he a starling. sUuneh, honest man, jut for the ske (it your posterity. Those who court disgr.ue ar Mtie rn.l to be jilted. Faith is a pieat lady; and good works are her attendants. -h. Pride wou'd never me: ?',d r would never pay. Ilcr.itate, and the vuljar v. 11 :lr I y.. weak.be confident, ard il f v v. ti Iii you wise.

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