Plymouth Weekly Democrat, Volume 13, Number 13, Plymouth, Marshall County, 28 November 1867 — Page 2

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J. 31CDQ3IALP, Editor. THURSDAY, NOV. 28, 18G7. tiis ijiieacei5ii:.t or tkc Tho majority and minority reports of tha juiiciary committee of congress, hare been presented, and their consideration postponed until Wednesday of next week. The majority report, signed by Geo. S. Boitwell, Fraucia Thomas, Thomas Willems, William Lawrence, and John C. Churchill, declarer for the impeachment of the prudent, by recomiiieading to congress tha adoption of tha following resolution : "Resolved, That Andrew Johnson of the United State?, b impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors' Two miucrity reports were submitted, cue cl which concludes a3 follows : "Rigolwl, That the cemmittco of the judiciary be discharged from the further consideration of the impeachment of the president of tho United Stated, and that tha tubjsöt be laid. upon the table." The nbjeet of impeachment is now fairly before congress, in the shapa of three reports, and 1,300 pages of closely printed " evidence. " The great agony in which radicalism has been writhing for so many weary months, in the belief that the judiciary committee of congress, to whom was referred the who! a business of impeachment, would report adversely to the will of the majority of congress, is now evar ; the victim is within their grasp, and ; naught retrain? but to wreak vrgc&nco upon ths man of thair own chcesine. The people have already become tiril of hear ing and reading of this impeachment business ; but they may m well contain thenoeelves in patience, as the beginning of the end is hardly in eight, unless tho recent impeachment by the people cf tha wouldbe .mr"',iicr.s of the president has sogoad- ? ! t ':: that they will rcako short work of the .d man of the Whits ITcuse. Vt'c ara no apologist for Andrew Johnpoc. Ha I? not cur style of maa. He onc'i knew, and rcbably knows yc, what true democratic principles are. By a prcfö3?ed love for them, and pladges to sustain them with alt hia power and influence, ho succeeded in obtaining places of honorand trust. When the dark doud of fanaticism arose over tho land, and constitutional principles were being swept away by the avalanche cf abolition intolerance, hatred and corruption, and the country war being cirscd with every species cf deviliahnccs which Yankee ingenuity cculd invent, Andrew Johnson was among the first to belie the profeions and actions of a lifetime, by going over to those at whom he had been hurling anathemas for vears, and with a vindictivenpss and a hate which has no parallel, palliation or justification, turned npon these who hau made him all that he ever wa?, and ten thousand times more than he ever d icrveu to be, and became the tyrant's t-.td for their advancement and nbj ligation. Whatever measures of oppression wera deemed necessary for the subjugation of Andrew Johnson's constituents, he ras ever found ready and billing to aid in their enforcement. Dy reason of his previous ro3pociabli3 a-jsoci-atioas, he was generally selected to do the dirty work whic'i tho I&to lamented deemed necesrary to be done in Tennessee. and the region thereabout. A eenator of the United States from Indiana wa3 at one time charged with " high crimes and miidemeanors " by the men who aro now making tho sme charge against Andrew Johnson, aud he done all j in hiA power to have tho senator impeached, cr tzpcllcd, as the term then was Men evil deeds will follow them.aad Andrew Johnson's arc overtaking hiu with unexpected celerity. The proseutor becomes the accused. He who refuses to hear the pleading of a hcrt-brolen suopliant for mercy to an innceecf, harmless old woman, and that won.an her moth er, but eigus the death-warrant and orders an execution which disgrace the nation, tho thought of which fills t very humane breast with horror nnd indignation, will soon be brought before his lato associates in crime, to answer to thera for not committing still more atrocities. He will bt call; 1 upon to explain why he has halted in tha enforcement of radical edicts by tho military power of the government in the cauthem states. This impeachment buine?3 is a kind of Kilkenny cat fight, in which tl! concerned deserve to ba well scratched. If the American people cannot look upon approaching e vent in the re?o!ution which tho party that elected Mr. Jehnsoi have inaugurated, without apprehensions of largor to the public wchlure, they will at Ie?st have tlto oonsolation of knowing that if condemnation falls upon Mr. Johnson, or any ether leader cf the jacobin party, it can not fall amiss. WES r OST. Westen, tho man of legs, i tho great secsation just now. Tho Chicago dailies hayo from thre to eight columns of Wftoniana in each issue. We arc indebted to tho Chicago Timet for the particular in regard to Westen and hi3 great pedestrian feat, which we condoato below : Udard Pay?on Weston wis bcrn in Portland, Me., in the year 1340, and eo ii not, as has been reported, much to hi? annoyauca, a native or l.'i;Iuna. llo now neirly 23 yoar cf tgc, stmds dve huiid. Mid we-b.ir.g 127 prjrM. 1

Want of success in business, and an. inability to pay certain debts induced lici.

through Geo. K. Goodwin cd Neu yor .ein Mn .v. i. ii city, to wager" $10,000 that he could and would walk frn Portbnd, Mo., to Chicago, 111., a distance of 1,200 ststute miles, in 20 secuhr days. Ono ot tho conditions wa3 that, a- a r.art cf i'.urnJy, liO should make 100 mile? in twoniyfour hours; and if, after making f.vc

trnK he faded, ho was to foncit t:x-1 Moft 5:lto the iv.2!e to ee if it vas loadtenths cf tha waprcr. " cd The result was ciu:n:ntl7 lalwfictorv, Weuton made hi fifth and last trial oft and Mr. Lawrence p'ayed a prominent 100 miles in 21 hour, between Waterloo j i"rt ll funeral next tlay. and a point 0 miles eist of La Porte, and Judgo IIir.es, of Indianapolis hjs infailed. Mid-way between Mishavvaka and! vcatcd a mchh 3 which i-j wnrraoUd to South Dead he gave up tha raee, owing, squeeze all the d: out cf auy man. A as ho said, to the discrepancies in tho üis-1 member of the In-liaiiapoiis city counil,

tanecs, and the bad ccLdition of ths roads, which, in consequenco of the rain, vers very muddy. At the timo of giving r.p the 100 milo trial, he had accomplished SO miles in 21 hours. Tuesday night Werten etayed at Li Pert?. Oa Thursday at 10:40, ho will arrive at Chicago, after which he will eat his Thanksgiving dinner at tha Sherman house; hold a reception in it pr!or; visit the theaters, tho crib and tunnel, the stock-yf.rds, !nd other objach of intorcst ; in conclusico, uprjn Pextr park bo will perform hii great feat of waiking 100 miles in 24 hours for the benefit of tho , ... . , t , i destitute widows and orphans cf tho boidie. He declares his ability to perform I thii feat, and he wants to proie to the people cf Chicago that it vtp.s the bad roads and long miles of Indiana that prevented tin from d)ii;g it on Monday. Tho ord-3r cf proce&cicn through the sporting town of Gothen, wr.?, according to the Time? reporter, ai fjllowj : Smnll boy. A wood Tfigcn. ' We; ton. Au Kxpress rigonvvith the mctteei: "M. U.r.." and "ExceIior V Tho Gcsiien Saxe-IIcrn and Big Drum Brass jJand. Citizcre borecback. Country pe-olj similar to citlyen?. 15 mall bow. rnx third nuNDnrr-:MT.'?: TniL. Yuton recaireil a dispatch from Lis backer, i -farming 1dm that tho distance between Silver Creek and Ccnsaut, where he made th 91 rni'c, wai gcic? to ho surveyert, as it was telicvod that, m the j distance traveled, thsre was 1U0 irites or mere. Weston thinks eo himief, and in tends to sec it surveyed. Tho Lapcrtc J7:r.ri , of the 2d iüst., contains n full stafenient of ihe circuusbii'C af !cadiig the killing of p.t. Daily by Pdt. Dunn,. hit week, rar Lspor'o. frcn T.-hich it app-jars lhat Dun was nt wh?;lly iu fault, as t S:s4. reported On his proiiml-ary cxamln.ulcn he wpf , committed for trial, ca tail 6fSC000.! Uc will bo defended by M. K. Irnr.-1, The Gcod Tc--pl'r cf Lpr,r:. Like f aad Porter counties meat :n convention at Wcstville to-day. The Iichigr?n City Lnt-vpn'ij .l;ays that the schooner Mrv, ca:V a here iu one (S Mio I.ite galea, ia row raloly iasidj the pier3. The nchooncr Crapcchot, Icüeheu cn Plum Island, i.i a Utal r;-cck. The Joccphece Dresden, built iu Michigan City, i2 al?o a total wravk. The fourteoath snnual meeting of the Indiana Strts Tcaclicra' Asise-atioa v;ill be held ia the city of No Albany oa the 25th, 20th and 27th days ol December, 18G7. Thi? association has been, stoadily Igan-poit Uuioa railroad ii completed 2:caia, U Miami county, aad by the hittcrpirtofthe x?cek ?iil bo finished to Dunker ilii!, the crodng f the P. k J. railroad. Mr. Carr, a rasident of Peru, 7ra2 iu-1 stantly killed by a train of car, at Lo-gan.-poit, on Sunday, tha 17 th. Tha democrats cf Miami county will held a convention cn Saturday, tho 14th of December, to nominate delegates to tho democratic slate convention, to bo hol den at Indianapolis on tho bth of January, 18C3. Tu detno?rats of Whiticy county held tb.oir d"'io7,ale convention ou Raturd'iy, the 7th cf December. A Ft. Wayne jury have acquitted one nigger for killing another, probably cn the belief that the :man and brother" was too numerour iu that locality already. The Ljfiyetto Journal .-ays "negro r.iffrnge is not a fne?tion Licli the people wish to cxrrcj thero"!vcs urrn next! fall." That qJ2?tiou laa already boon subrcitted to the peoplo of pome cf the northern' etate, to tho ?orrow of the Journal' jB.:iy. Tho democrat ere ready for-tho Uri3 whenever the republicans choose to rnako it. In Ft. Wayne a Lad pmcil was found to issue frcn the chest of a German emigrant. Tho rep-'rt becamo current th:it tho box cn tain cd dmiompedag corpr. aDd an excited crcvd bu, it (.;)!. It w:is fouiol to con lain a Lip.d..r chocc. All of v.hicu v.j give on the at:i! ority t f Sam Frr 'nun, local of tho J) njcrui. John C. Cowman, alias John (1. Dland, ah'cn Job'.! C. Llunch, riJ.'u.y J'obcrt Chifos, rvCently fsilcl in t!:e rltempt to ehpe with n young lady cf ;ii.-iizv:rlaLid coiinty named From an. Py a recent re in Kcckicic, the large flouring mill ot Du.v.h Co,, tareo fraue 1. uildins n.jjoiniug, sad Janea Cavil's - . - Y KIT; ' i . J J ( V I . o?j,

i increesieg in power und lnuucuw'd -ibce ita cJj:ed forccüc ta-Ienfs, has i-nr crecutive I : t t ... - :-. f Ubiihicst po that, if the poc.ide ßhaü -.vi.Jh

Tho Mimi County :nf'nl snye the j to the senate, we &hill have a governor in

A farmer nam od Benjamin Tea, who resides in Tippecanoe county," about four

milei west of Delphi, on the Lafayette "ad was Ii0t 111 tIiC hzce. oa last Monday evening T.bcnt six cr eeven o'clock, and lived but two or three hours. Henry Lee nnd James 3ucklo arc nrdcr arrest cn ruspiion. Jamci L. Lawrence, a young nan of A arrick county, took ins gun ana went out to flioot crow.s. Th rr'in misled firo. 5omewh-t noted for lui-s canine 'proclivities. wt indnccd to t.o.ke a squeeze i few days liince. H- wa. put in, and in firetniautcB aficr the Bcrewj were opened and fcuad to bo empty. Not a fragment of hair, bone, cartilage' or excrement was left." Ti s nicmtar W03 all dog,, a-id was coruplclely i squeaked cr.t. Thi:i iKed'.ciae .will doubt!?i: be in groit derrand ia Uai?: 1 dii-trio-. Tho denizens 'of the sleepy little village of BluSton, have recently been aroused by the com::v!'?ion cf s honible crime on a little girl bvt sir yemj old, by o. pruiilicet n.erciiant of i'izt p!ac;. Lynchijir . 4 J -s talfcoJ of, ,ut ,-ofter counts pre vailed. Child KurtNtfr) to DrATir. In Michigan City, on thursdsy, the hous-j occupied by Mia. Tim. McCarty was burned. Mrs. M. got her children out and returned to five her clothe. One of her children followed her and wa2 burned to death. There wero ouo hundred and forty-four teachers in attendance at the Teacher's Institute recently hold at Warsaw. The Hocior state, in view of the griblinpr propensities of the times, innocently inquires, "what are we drifting to t An extraordinary revival is in progress among the Quakers of Spleeland, Henry county. Two men were buried alive while dig ging c well sear WiQ&u&G, one Jay last week. A third man came very near losing his life in his efforts to save the other two. j . A a.iil manufactory has recently been c.rt.hl:he6 1 in New Albany. Aeon cf Wm. Kitner, while picking up 2ar. in Cass county, was kicked tad killed by a horse. The Mishawka Enterprise killed a fresh b.nx tho other day. The Seymour 7inusy a radical sheet, thus refers to the radical pow-vow hell in thi city a short Ivji2 r.v;o, at. which were present representatives of tliat party from virious sections cf the stato : A few invited 7?ro worker: net at In dirxr polls a .-hort tin:a ego to rut cut vrork f r the Kepnblican prty Of r rlrro pc:?pi3 v.'ill wo:m .0 order. tiir. Lr."TFNAT Governorship.--y8 u?vir,trd tjnt Jud.-C James M. j Ilr-nna. of iSuihvau, hiz consented to be a cntrid:ite for lieutenant governor, j hs are glad to leavn. "Wc chjuld have been' pleased to have hid him run lor the j governorship, but as it is understood thai j Hon. Thomas A. Ilcndsieks h?.s- co i ed to make the race for that pctin. i: :s gratifying that Ju Jgj'lIjana will b cad en Ao ticket. "With Iendr'iek Ii be 9.3cfor foveraor and Hsnna for Ir'atenant govcrcr. the state will carr; ry vith it a fo.ve, ami rally aronnd it a horf. thi ;.?!!1 U hard to cverdomo n&y, which can not ba overcome. Mr. Ib-.jdricks hps achieved z nitional reputation as a ?ft:::ian ; Judc Henna, added to his grct nnd ncksj?! the person of Jadgo Ilanua, cr whom Inmay wen r.e prouu. j A correspondent writing to tho Via j cca:es ., irom Dover Hill, Martin county, ;u ü er. the foliowing KUggctionj? m rc.raro to a eau4:uaij ivr iieuua.-.L't governor : "That Hendricks w ill ?e nominated lor governor, hccirs now to be a forcgo-jc conclusion, aud we think a t.y wise conclusion, tco ; nnd we know of no ouo we would prefer to have nominated for the office of lieutenant governor than Hon. Thfrinai tt. Cobb, cow cf yur city. The democracy cf Clarion county ku:7 him well. He his served eight years in the i-tato ale, and has served us well. His prcit Fcrvico in the cuulo of democracy ii ust ever eadcr him to cvory lr-ii democrat, und, if nominated, v;ill make an cnorgetic aud thorough canvass, aud hij record as an orator and his ability as a dohater are an honor to the state. Gtati: Auditor. The Eighth of Januaiy convention, ot Ir.tlianapoIIs, will seled from the Liaterinl presented by the deiaocTfcy cf Indiana, a suitable candiMir.to fur auditor cf Stato. The office- is cna oi great importance to the people, and rho'.'ld be filled by a man who hag Fomo hnondedo of its duties sind labors. Wc, therefore, with the fullr.-t cc nf.dcncc tliat ho Ija.'i the Jedi r.oni.in ualificatiocp, houcsty aud capability, present the name of our fellow citisrn, Jozcph V. Demusdaffer, iritj., a j the choice of the democracy of th'u county for that position. Mr. lemuhdaCcr ii widely known to the demo crat.) of tha state, aud we think a man whom the party will delight to honor. Wo present the mma to tho convention, and '.:.k that the claim? of old Franklin may bo considered. Our caudidate u popular iu all fouthor3torn Indiana, and rii lumi iation would materially btrcugth. eii tiic ticket. Wc trust that tho democracy ii convei tion assembled, will regard wilh fiver tho claim.; cf Mr. P., and uom-inrt-j hitn lirooJcvill' Dtir.ocrat. Intimate friccdjof Guner.nl Gnr.it st-ite that hcvviil aiukc no formal or informal dtciaration of piiucip'es, even to cecure a r viral'.-tn. ?.n l thnt, if elected, he flnll li'lt! hi-, .r.f Irc t; net fi he '..irdor. : y due-.:.

fas thev w in to rctnrn Mr. Hftiid.ick ; to

CONGREÖS; ?oth houses of congress assembled at noon on Thursday, tho 21st, pursuaut to the July adjournment. There was a large attendance of visitor- nnd q.ootit .r.-;, and tho eaUoricd v.' ere filled long before tha hour of Meeting. Tho oxpectation of

many that the impediment report would bo piuocatud in tho hou-o giv.? that branch the scene of the greateüt interest. The fceaate met at 12 o'clock, on u nerr red carpet, feo loud and flaming in its hue Lhat it daze- tho eyes of all who beheld it for tho ür-st time. Nearly all tha aeuators were prc?cnt. Nothing of avtry imporlnnl natura has trans-pircd in conc;res?, up to this tinic, encopt the sulniitting of lb-3 majority and lain'irity rcpcrL. of tho judiciary oonnnitfee, ou Monday last, a nynopri.-i of which wc yivc bolow. Further r.ction on tha reports wa3 deferred until December 4th. xajuiuty HKroar. Ihi following is the most important por;f the majority report of the commit la accordance with the tj--.tinvüny herowltu .s'lbioitted, and the view of tue law hvisio presented, tha committer are cf opinion tb it A udrov; Johnson, President of the UaUel States, id guilty of high criuiea and misdemeanor repiiriDg tho in'.ei position of tho constitutional perera of this hous-3, iu that upon tho final surrender of the rel'el arinie-s and the overthrow of the rebol government, th-3 raid Andrew Johnson, Pr-u ientof the United Slater, neglected to convene the eocgresa of the Uuitbd States, that by its aid and authority, legal and constitutiourd measures might have been adopted for the organization of loyal and constitutional governments iu the States then in rebellion; in that ia his proclamation to the people of North Carolina, cf the 20th day of May, 1805, he assumed that he had authority t.i decide whether the government of North Carolina, and whether any other government that might be setup therein, was republican ia form, and that in his office of president it was his duty, and withia his power to guarantee to eai'd people a republican form of government, contrary to the constitution, which provider that the United States ßhall guarantee to every State in this Union a republican form of goveroiueut; contrary, alio, to a deliberate opinion cf the supreme court, which declares that congress is vested exclusively with the power to decida whother the government of a State is republican or not ; in that he did therefore recognize and treat a plan of government set up ia North Carolina, under and in conformity to his own advico and direation, as republican in form, aid entirely restored to its functions a3 a State, notwithstanding congress is the branch of government in which,. by the constitution, such povrer is exclusively vested, and notwithstandiag congre did refuse to recognize such -government as a legitimate government, or a' a government republican in form; in that, by n public proclamation and otherwise, he did, in the year 18G5, invite, solicit and convene in certain other States, then really ia reMllioa. enrentionä cf persons, many of whom rvero kitowa traitors, who had büen crejaaircd in .ilicmptina; to overthrow tho goveminent of the United StnUs, and urged anl directed such convention to frame con stitutions for such States; ia that he thcrcupan assumed to accept, ra-tify and confirm certain so-called constitutions formed, by. euch illegal and treasonable assemblages of persons, which Constitution vrcro never submitted to the people of tho rcrpective States, nor ratified and cjiiiirmjl by the United Statc.n, thus usurping .and ezerciaing power Tested by the constitution ia the congress of the United 3:atc3; in lhat ho par Id mod large numbers Oi pubho traitors and i narJots, with the dcign ot receiving fron the:n aid in such conventions called by his atvioe ;ii:d direction, for the purpose Of ml etting up Buch illegal governments in the States then recently L$ rclehhii, prior to the annual meeting of congress, with tho intent thus, to cou-:trr.in congress to accept, ratify and cI'LoVm fiich illegal and unconstitutional all of which emissions of duty, usurpations cf power, violations of his oath of .cilice, of the law; &r.ä Constitution of tha United State.,, by eaid Audrew Johnson, president of iiie Unitf d States, havo retarded tho public prosperity, lessened tho publi? revenues, diserdored the busiines yi:d fuiarces cf tho country, encouraged irubordinntion in the jieoplo of tho states lately in rebellion, fosterod Bciitimenta of hcatility between iillcrnt classes of citizens, revived and kept alive the spirit of tho rebellion, humiliated the national nag, dishonored republican institutions, ob ftructod the rcrroratu n of said states to tho uuiotf, and delayed and postponed the peaceful and fraternal organisation of tho government cf tho United State. Th? eommitteo therefore report tue aocouip:'.rj;i'' roiolutioa and urge i Is passgo. Güo. S. DouTvrF.riii, F&ancis Thomas, Thomas Williams, William Lawrence, J.NO. C. ClIURCniLL. Devolution providing for the impeachment of .the president of tho Uuitod States : lti:sOLVXD, That Andrew Johnson, president of the United States, be impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors. MINOR TT REPORTS ON IMPIACLIMKNT. Representatives Wilson and Woodbridge hauded in a report dissenting from tho conclusion: of the committee. They proceeded to diseuss tho constitutional questions in regard to impeachment, showing, by reference to legal authority, that an impeachment cannot be pupportcd by any act which fulls short cf an indictable crime, or misdemeanor. English precedents are referred to at length, and copious extracts made from the tostimony of tho cemmittc o, in ordr to refute the reapouing and concluoious of the majority. They conclude :u folio W3 : A great deal of matter contained in the vobano of tostimouy reported lo the hou.'e is of no vrlue rhatevtr; much cf it is mcro h';f.r 4ay, opinions cf witnesses, and no little amcunt of it utterly irrelevant to tho case; compnratively a small smount of it c ".! 1 be U"cd ou a trial of thix cc bc-f-.ro ihe rannte. AI! t-f lue lesLmony rahti. l"- th fcih-re ' try and -V n'h-t

sion to bail of Jefferson Davia, the assassination of president Lincoln, the diary of J. Wilier. Dooth, hia place cf burial, the practice pardon brokerage, and the alleged correspondence of the president with Jefferson Davis may bo interesting to a icador, but Is not of the slightest importance fc-'O far. as a determination of th: caiic is concerned. tStill much cf this matter hau been interwoven into th? majority rrpoxts and ha'-i served to liu'jiblcu iL oobr and deepen its tone, fc'ottle down upou the real evidence ii tho eise, lhat i ii .

lacii will estatdJi, in view (d tho attending circumstances, a substantial crime, by making plain the elements which coustitute it, and tho ease in many rc.pecla d warf into a political contest. r Judge him politically, condemn hbj, but the day of political impaeh!iient would bo a ?M cno f.r the country. Political unfitness and incapacity mut be tri?d art the ballot-box, not in a high court of impeachment. We therefore declare that tho case before u, presented by the testimony and measured by tho Inw, dr.v? not declare such high crimen and misdemeanors within the ineanin ing of the constitution ns require iterpo;sition of the constitutional row tho in er of tho hoa, and recommend tho adoption of the following resolution : RttAvt(.lt That the committee on tho judiciary be discharged from tha further coxpidcration of the propose 1 imr..ekment of the president of tho Unite I States i-r.d that the subject be laid upn Jam?. V. WiLno:. Frsdericx 11. Woosuury. NTei3r.v Marshall ar Eldrilge, ia their report, 3y of the president: His greatest cfTencc, we tpprehcnl, vU! be found to be that he h&a not been able to follow those who elected him to oLico ia thrir mad assiuits upon and departure from the constitutional government of the fathers cf the republic, and that standing where mct of hu party proteased to etan d when they elevated him to his higti position, he has dared todirfer with the majority cf congress upon great and important questions. .He has belie v ed in the continuing and blndinar obligations of the conatitution, that the suppres-ion of the rebellion against the union was the ores- - . tl-- l31 crvation of the union naü the .states csr - - prising it, nnd that when ike rebellion , put down the täte, were all and ccmallv f-i titled to representation in tho ccneress of the United States. Aud can we possibly be miitaken when wo assert that however honest may be the majority of the committee, the. verdict of the country and of posterity will be that Ihe crime of the president consists not in .violations but in refusals to violate the laws; in bravely daring tho maledictions of tho&e who have arrived at the accomplishment of a most wicked and dangerous revolution, rather than to encounter the reproach of hi? own conscience and the curses of posterity through all time. For the Democrat. NUMEEH TUitS: Our rsniarks in No. One and Two cf our early recollections of circumstances and events in .Marshall county, were somewhat nixed," and somo of thorn not placed in tLc orIci' iu they oceurrc l, but wo write' mostly from memory tho indul gent render will pardon our want of cider. In tho spring of 1333 the commissioners appointed Stephen Marsters agent of the throe per cent, fund a fund which has long since cearad to bo. We are not certain that we know how this fund originated, but our impressions are tint by an act of congress three per cent, of the proceeds of the sales of the public bou ds was given to the state for the purpose of building ßtrito roads. The stato divided her share equally among the dilTercat coimtiui. The agent expendod the money under th3 direction of tho commiisioners. In the spring of 1837, Niies Gregory was appointed agent of tho "surplus revenue fand." Daring tho last term of president Jackson, probably in 1830. the United States were out of debt, and a furplus over the expenses had accumulated in the treasury. Tho government (ccrgrcs?) begtn to cast about to see what foasihle plan could be adoptod to retrieve the treasury of the enorraoug amount of rac";

which was lying idle in the government's!01 people and sleek have suffered s-adiy

vaults. Congress finally enacted a law to loan millions of dollars to the different states, with the understanding that it would never be called for. This fund constituted a part of tho common school fund. The first law enacted iu reference to loaning it authorized tho agent to take personal security. The consequence was that a portion of tho fund was lost. The legislature eoon enacted a more stringent law, since which the fund has sustained no losa. Tho office of the agent of that fund was abolished in fbw ayearf,nnd the ofiee of school commissioner created. Said commissioner look chargo of tho fund for a time, but that ofiico waa nlso soon abolished. The auditor and treasurer then took chargo of tho fund and have had the management of it ever tduoo. Tho interest is distributed to the trustees of the ditfercut towns and townships in tho spring and fall, according to tha number of children of school age, fcr the purposo of paying school teachers. Tho first court in Marshall county wa.; prosided over by Samuel C Sample, of South Doud, as circuit judge, assisted by Peter Schrocdcr aud Sidney Williams, associate judgo. After Judge Sample's term had expired, Ebouezor Chamberlain, of Go.shen, Thomas Staulicld, of South Pond, and A. L. Osbora, of Laporte, each served as circuit judge. Occasionally an attorney was appointed to fill a vacancy, or toattond a court when tha judge was pick, or from rome causo unable to atteail. H. D. Tabor, David Steele, aud Elia .Ta- . --ich rved a- associate juo;o.

Thcre was linally a law enacted aboILLiug the oihcc. Tho fir.-;t thcriff was Adam Vinne.lgc, next, Abner Caldwell, Patrick Lectin, Joseph Kvans, Seth llu ?.-?y, Win. C. Edwarde, J-ieob 1J. Hupp, John L. Thompson, (). M. ISjrnard, James F. Vanvalkcuburg, II. M. liMtin, :uid l Uw. In the f.rot district ihe following :i incd

persons have ca.-h served as comniis-sloaer, to-wit : Abraham Johnsou, Goorgo ?!rtcIf, Joseph iL-ans, Ilobcrt Johnson, D. S. Conger, Ilirm A. ilanek, ltobcrt Schräder, Chailo: Palmer, Jacob Kaohlock, . N. Champlin, JIo-os Xoyser, and Thomas Tyncr. In the second district, Charlos Oötorhaut, Juha Gib -.on-, Jamee Nah, Kansom iJurbor, David Vanvactor, IClijah Doley and William (j arrive n. Ia tho third district, Robert Ll dr, Andrew Itcbcrts, Lwd ircndai-I, Abv.1 C. Hickman, T. McDonald, Johu . Dickson, Knos Tuttle, Ira Allen, Sanfbrd Gordon, Wm. Hughes, John II. Vörie-, I. X. Morris, and Leonard Allcman. Tiic fallowing named persons have each i ' C1 7C;' r'' cIcrk of tllQ MariaI1 circuit j co :vi j to-wit : Jciemiah Muney, Wm. G. Pomeruy, 'O. F. Norton, Laae Hew, Chaih.-s iViiuor, Kufu3 "llewott, Diehard CciloL- :,T. l. Packard, Ilezcklah Pershbg, and John C. Cushu; n. The foil iwing named persons have served an county treasurer, to-wit: Jcha Houghton, Joseph Evans, David Yicnedgo, N. Ii. Oglecbe:, D. O. Quivey, acd M. W. Downey. Wra. G. Pomeroy, Win. M. Dunham, T. McDonald. Au-tla Fall?r, and A. C. Thcmr.'Dn havo each Fcrvcl es count v .auditor. The clerk of the circuit court was also clerk of the commissioner's court up to IStl. The r.fl r; i f rmntv .im i-.'nr ms .i i rp, , , , thon created. Ilia clsrk allowr.d tn :, n . r r hcl ocJl oßcC5 'üra tlce' ! Tho folh- named persons have each wrvcl as reorder of deeds, to-wit : Silas Morgan, C. J. Uobron, Tpaac Crocker, G. S. CleavcianJ, Johnsen Drownleo, Thcs. XI. Houghton, and J. W. Houghton. All land 3 cold by tho United States wero tuompt from taion fru five years, iurto somewhere about 1850. The legislature enacted a law in 1840 requiring the eommi.-sioncrJ to appoint r.omo pcisu to appraise the real estate. Ia the year 1 845 and 1S50 the legislature ccr tinned tho rame larr in fores, but in there was ro law authorizing the ccmini.Vior.Grs to nako tue); appointment. At tho next iucetii.g of the legislature it jLiid-d c i.iw ro.;'ii;i.:g tue ccmmissiosers to 7ahs i.aeh appointment every five ir:i. xticy Lppoln'ed T. McDonald in 10, TiL-othy Uarb-x i i 145, ltobcrt Johc: ja 3:1 Di"i0, aad J. Ii. I. Kiingor ia 185"). Ia lCd;i thi Ic'siaturo retealed thr.t pjert the !-iW r:qu:v:ng iao ccmruissioncrs to tippobii, aud made it the duty of thi pzt-.h to e'ect. In the frll of 1SG3 J. Ih Kitch wad tie? tod. Wc may poib'y have forgotten tic nr.mco cf ft fow vtho havo GUeJ tome of the ofäcc3 naruc-d above, aud may have .got tome of the dates wrong, but we think they aro substantially correct. 1 J 1 Chicago, Nov. 23, 18C7. Ep. Dr:.cRAT : On Saturday evening last the lor.glookod for and much-needed rain cime down b?re iu torrents, and aver cince, up to tliis morning, wo hava had tha jucicct kind of weather, until tu tona of dust in our st recto have been changed to pnlpy mul, f.r.d xon 02m tu devote all their energies t" carrying umbrellas. When I said "wl; ii-eded rain," x spoke from & fe.dirg of mo'.t purely diuicteresied symt athy ior tb-3 rural districts. Wc, in the A. J c":t7 !-:lt'J Micligaa to supply us, are ri-c inucpoudoLt, but out in tho country mcncc quantities cf water have been shipped cut of the city, cn nearly all the railroads, during the dry season. Down at Ccutralia a big buiincss was done fcr some time at shipping water, and even hero in 'cur cv.u vicinity, people have cc"J33 in as ranch as three miles to the city liiiits, to haul water for culinary purpoue3. In the "Western Reserve," of Ohio, it h s-iid, that during the recent season of drought, farmers, unable to keep their immense hcids of hccp, ofltrod them for pale at ii" low ns 2i cnts per head, with no buyei-3. AVoll, Ucarcn be thanked, the rain hes coiuo at last, and the town may wall bear tho trifling ineonvenienecs which attend this great benefit to tho country. When every other subject for rosation fail, Chicago h:s one unfailing resource, her divorce fuits. Talk cf Indiana, why, she is prorfy, conservative, old fashioned, slow and ptupid in her divorce business that ia which ehe has acquired her greatest fame. "Indiana grants a divorce quickly;" Yes 1 I grant that; but can tdc beat -ur ov. 11 liberty-Ioviag Chicago, in which it has Iceu known that a divorce was tipphed fcr, granted and the woman inanicd again, all iusida of tTvo hours, half cf which tiuo the court occupied in .citing its dinner? Thon ngain, outside of tho n:erc qucsiiou of speed, Indiana is inartistic. She fails to develop properly the fvnsaiiouiil features of eaie?, and W originate ncvItics. Ah! hew infinitely in th: respect doc? plv full I flow Chicago. Ji't c:w Chic.g glori iu a peculiarly revc n,. ,;:agur:m "

papers make much of it, people talk it over gleefully, and we triumph over life world. Chicago has produced a young woman, who, in order to obtain a divorce from her husband, aud get a handsome sum as alimony with her freedom, has deliberately published her own mother as an uiultvre:-.s, and with nice detail of time and pice, hxed the occasions a closely ss possible, when her husband bestowed upon her mother those delicate attentions and tender caröS3es,which she deemg should have been hers Klone. The husband thus compromised is Mr. D. F. Quimby, formerly a commission merchant hire, now in the real cstato business. The mother ia Mrs. I". Reynold. The wife who denounces them, Mrs. Gertrude A. fiby. It is to be hoped that there are few daughters viho would not prefer a FacriHcc of their feelings to almott any extent, rather than make such an abomniable expose a3 this. Ilcr allca'ations, that even on her

bridal tour her hr.-Laud left her bed to gor to that of hj:r mother, rather begeta a disgust for all concerned than sympathy foi her. Tho fight between the lit oral arid ortho dox christians still goes on with unabated intereit. Every Sunday Dev. Ft. L. Collier denounces the creed of tho latter, and Dev. Mr. Everts anathematizes that of the former clis.i. It interests tlioir rci.ectivc audiences, gets into the papers and makes them conspicuous, nud is likol by everybody except tho reporters, who are thoroughly disgusted with the whob matter. Speaking of reporters, by the way, three of the RcpuUiean boys havo a large double sleeping-room in the Young Men's Christian Association building. In that building grim virtue sit.3 supreme, with Itev. D. L. Moody as her pet hand-maiden. Itcp'ortcrs labor often until very late at night, anl consequently e lumber lutein t!. - : nn.i -r . i r uiu uiu w hui cares iuoouy j.r such things ? He scorns the promptings of the flesh as regards slumber or anything else. At a frightfully euly hour one morning reeenily, tho boyj ay at 5 A. M., and it might havo been, they vcro J nwaked by a furious thundcriuir and rapping at tneir door. " ho the d1 is there V they shouted, and oae hastily seized a dimijohn, deeming the alarm one of lire, and purposing to escape with his valuables. "Arise, ye sleepers, don your raiment and seek Jesu?. Tho early pray-er-mselicg is even now about to bo held. Come to him early and drink of the living waters." chanted the voice of Mooly. Words are insufficient to portray the dis gust of tha young nan Viiththc demijohn. I at the latter clause cf the invitation, and ! if Moody had fcon where the trio unanimoudy requcstou l iui to, water won! 1 J tr.enccicrtu i:-.vo hcdn scarce iu his vit v v . U Ii V . An important era in tho hhtory cf Chicago's smnHO'.ucr.ta is close at hand. The production here cf a grand rpeetae'e ono costing thousands upon thousands cf dollai?, greater cvou than the "Black Cro k," or ihe 4rDevil's Auction," with a ballet imported expressly for it from tho principal theaters of Europe. A dramatical and musical company, recoud to none in the country, an entira rebuilding of one of the finest stages on this continent, especially to aecoinmcdato it, costumes of unparalleled magnificence and beauty, and mechanical cTect3, more marvellous and costly than any over before witnessed cn this fcido of the Atlantic. And all thi?, let it be noted, fcr a piece which has not first been subjected to tho test of New Y ork favor, but which comes for its reputation in this country, to tho Metropolis cr the Northwest. Tho ballet imported by Messrs. Talmcr and Jarrait, the same gentlemen who selected the "Black Crook" ballet ibrNillo's Garden, bus been culled with tate and cars frcco the most beautiful and giacefal of the ballet corps cf Berlin, Milan and Paris, and is afiirmcd to be the fin tat which has over been iu thi country. It numbers fifty-two, und with the additions made in this country, the total will be about sixty-four. The titlo uf thepitc is "Undine," and next Monday Has betja i-xed upou tor the opening night. C. New Yoiik The New Yorl publishes the full vote of tho state at t! a x 4 41 tin c 19 recent election. The result ia i. follows : GoitriiCT, 1013. Fenton. republican, 366,315; Hoffman, democrat, 352,26; republican majority, 13,72:0: total vote, 71S,S31. Xecntcry of Mate, 18137. McKcan, republican, 324,017; Nelson, democrat, 373,860; tctal vote, 697, 003. Falling off ia total ,te from 1SC6, 30,?3S; republican loss from 1806, 42,J9S; democratic gain from 1866, 21,360. The Washington correspondent of tho New York Express, of last Tnureday, aays : "At an informal meeting of fomo of th.2 democratic members of the senate and house, lnt nipht. the names of General Hancock nnd Judge Thurman. of Ohio, were presented ns the most available candidates of the democracy for president aad vice-president at the next election." The Ohio Sttitftman (democratic) has taken the ccusus of the democrati? newipapers in Ohic, on the senatorial question, and finds 28 for Judge Thurman, 12 for Valiaudifchai 1, and 12 neutral. Of those p ipcis published in the counties that gave democratic majorities, 20 aro for Thurmau and 0 for ValUr.dighaui. Pi' la ski County. The democracy of this county will meet at SVinamac, on Saturday, December 14, to select delegate to the democratic state convention. tc h l,.,M v:- .... .i t 0.1 , Indiana; o is on th6 Sib d;iv of January, 1S6S. All Mho arc ovpobcd L the policy of tho prexent radical co.igrei ard in fiver of paying the govcnn.unt debt nccoMing to Uw, are rarnetlv in'.'7 i attei!-1.