Plymouth Weekly Democrat, Volume 14, Number 5, Plymouth, Marshall County, 1 October 1868 — Page 1

PLYMOUTH WEEKLY DEMOCRAT.

VOLUME 14. PLYMOUTH. INDIANA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1868. NUMBER 5. I

POLITICAL.

T8etinfl at Nei AHiany, on the 160. 1MLSS BY M. A. 0. PACKARD. From Um New Albany Ledger, Sup. 17th, The meeting at Music hill was another tpouring of the people, giving evidence the interest manifested in the contest 7 being carried on. The hall was wded in every part by the democracy the city, who appeared anxious tc hear j great questions now before the counj fully discussed. The attendance of White Boys in Blue, in uniform, was large, and their appearance at the etUNE added much to the enthusiasm of .c hour. After the arrival of this body ' men, and the audience had become jwhat quieted, the Hon. John S. Davis east forward and introduced the Hon. M. A 0. Packard to the assembly. His apirance created the wildest enthusiasm, 1 cheer after cheer was sent up by the jmocracy. Mr. Packard in addressing the assembly ... nplimented the democracy of southern ! "diana upon their thorough work in the avass now before them. Its composition i k of such a character that he knew not at he could advis; them, believing that l interests of the country, in this part .rt of the 8 täte, were safe in i heir hands, ind that they would so perform their duty would elicit he warmest thanks of their ! lr. rids throughout the state. He gave most cheering accounts of the democV of Indiana. The great question to be settled was I at is to be the future condition of the ill '! What was the policy to be in- : .rated to bring about a restoration of ; race and prosperity of the country? poüey to be carried out should not j I that miserable character that has j cteritcd the past acts of the repuboarty, and it demanded the serious ndid Consideration of the masses, j viewed, rapidly, the condition of the ,j T eight years ago, before the repubparty came into power, and the pledges ade by them when the government i uirendered to them.' He would not rtake to discuss the means adopted tea to bring about the condition of i si; ii-s that surrounded the people, bat let lead past bury the deid, but would -jrtake to calmly discuss the living ies presented in the preseut canvass. . sailed to the remembrance cf his hear5ie unanimity with which the people

I parties came to the rescue of the government in checking the advance of rnmeut at the outbreak of the rebel- the rebel aruj anJ the evidence borne How all party considerations were bv (ioY' Curtin a radical, to the patriotin the general desire to preserve the ism anJ loi'a,t? of Gov- Seymour, a of the states. The opposition in the The question of the currency and taxes h, if any existed, was inconsiderable, j received due consideration. lie took the struggle was a long and bitter one, ! Sroun(1 that one carrency should be suphe war was between a people of the j Plied to the Prle, the officer, and the - race; of the same indomitable cour- boDdholder If greenbacks were good Put the bold, brave, and determined j eB0U-h for tl,e mechanic and laborer it -r of the north conquered the south, 1 was Just as Sood for al, To ,onS have roughtthemto their feet, and dicta- j lhe PeoP,e submitted he controlled by . he terms of surrender. The outh e monied aristocracy of the land. The a) m4 a willingnes8 to abide by those beocfits of the government were for the S, and a desire to return to the uni ,n, 1 rich and Poor a,ike' Tho Peaker said bwt as a people with the same rights as that the Platform of the democratic party rantced by the constitution to all the uPon the flucstioQS of fi,iaQCe and currency I The report of Gen. Grant who j WaS 0De of C(lua,ity' aod 80 Pla,n wa3 il been sent by the government to exam- hat the PeoPle ould demand it8 adoPt" he condition of affairs, showed that ! 10B' and that the radlcals were tempting spirit of submission was universal t0 P1 il as a fuDda,acntal principle of n.g the people of that section It can tne.7 P'i j, , . ! I u iL . i- i t Mr l ackard'8 review of the Ch cago learly shown that the people of the , ,r . TT ' r, r r . platform was most excellent. He showed 'h done all that was required of them. , , . , , , w . , A. , . , . , that it was designed to deceive the people. Lincoln was satisfied and thought the I mt -,i . , , . -

' hi of those states should be restored, that they desired to reap the fruits t ttained in a restoration to the g.ivernt. In the recocstruction policy of Lincoln all men of all pnrties fully nesccd. Mr. Johnson essaved to fob low ut that policy. It good repub doctrine then. It was endorsed by mm mm - , , ' Mortoo of Indiana and all the lesser , in the coantry. hat was it that . , : . ?d the change in the policy toward .u i rp, ... , qntH r The south had not changed . w h' 'OlVllIU 111 V ll.t'l II III I I H I II WHT so. The whole secret was in the at if the south was admitted upon il footing that the democratic party ucceed to power. Mere party conral ons contro'Ied tl3m. Fear of in - t!rn f.nn. 1 1 1 ß I. m fHI f J",U1 itry was sacrificed to party. If f ' par.y uau neen rrue ro pr.uc. ountry would long since have the h.Kh road to prosperity, and ow be reaoiny the fruit of nnaee. ll 'r this restoration that our brav . r fought so heroically, that the money of the people was expended so freely. policy ot the radical rump congress ed that peace that Gen. Grant pro- ) desire. Thev have tramnld nn rj acred right guaranteed to the peo -ampled upon and spurned the au r of the executive ; curtailed the I legitimate powers of the supreme eo-irt, in effect destroying the purpose for it was inptitntcd ; trampled ipon

the constitution itself, that had been a

pillar of fire to the country, by destroying all the relations of the government, and were seeking after a centralized power. They made war on members of their own body by unseating them and placing in their stead their own partisans. The very conditions brought about by this party was a state of war, and from such a war good Lord deliver us. He then reviewed the status of the men whom the radical party were hugging to their bosoms as models of patriots, and who were foremost in the secession ranks during the war. The scathing rebuke he administered to radicalism upon this point was one of the most scathing we have ever heard. He alluded to the punishment already received by the people of the south for their maduess in attempting to leave the union of the states. He called attention to their broken fortunes and seattered households, where once contentment and prosperity reigned. He asked the pertinent question, are these penitent people always to be punished ? The application of the story of the parable of the prodigal son of scripture was a terrible repuke to those professed christians who are attempting to follow the teachings of their master, and yet exhibit a vindictiveness of feeli jg only worthy of fiends. He likened the leaders of the radical party to the Pharisees, as being too holy to hold communion or fellowship with their fellow men. The speaker then reviewed the financial question, and showed the importance of equalizing the burthens of taxation. In the days when the democratic party was in power it was their chief object to make the burthens fall lightly upou the people. The gigantic swindles perpetrated by the radical party were exposed with a master hand, showing that at least one third of the debt had gone into the hands of thieves and plunderers, who controlled the finances of the country during the war. The exposition of the democratic platform upon the subject of taxation and the national debt was a most noble vindication of the party. lie said the democratic party stood pledged to an equalization of the taxes, so that the burthens of the government might fall upon all alike. That while the radical party came into power pledged to economy, they had expended more during one year of peace than wag expended by the government during the four years of Mr. Buchnnan's administration. He alluded to the radical charge aaiust Gov. Seymour of wanting iu patriotism to his country, and cited, to prove the falsehood of these charges, the prompt and energetic action on his part in aiding the ; x ney win nou tnat tue people lully understand their double dealing and will refuse to endorse it. We cannot follow him in the argument made, but we hare rarely ever heard the platform of a great party receive a more thorough skinning than it 'received at the sneaWrs hnnda TVi rm. A rr;anAmu;n r k -.i:i r.. u : k 1 , , bondholder, and the excuse offered bv . 7TT . them that the government had to have I , ,, , , , money and were compelled to accept the L , . .i -j I terms offered by the monied men of the , . j country was tnorougii.'y exposed. It II trui that the government had 10 have money, but could not money be drafted as had been doue with the iüen wbo were called out to lay down their lives to protect the money of the rich man. It was little thing to say to the father, the wile an l the child you must surrender x nnn a i i1-tk-j . t !,.. ' Jrtrthand, a parent, but it was a matter of g,.eat consequence to call upon the wealth , of tho C0UQtry to surrcnder their doar8 Ih. patriotic sons of the country came i ir--j .1 n lutnaiu auu oucreu ineir lives as a sacri fice that the institutions of the country might be preserved ; but not bo with the rich man. he was not required to give, neither did he offer his moQey as a free will offering upon the altar of his country They sold their gold at fifty cenU on the 1 i r j -""ft wuvo min

the greenbacks at par. thus fattening on , build up their party at the expense of the the necessities of the people. The review nation, was also reviewed. One of the of the funding bill attempted to be forced J means employed by them for this purpose upon the country, was most excellent. was the passage of an act for the distribuHe showed that by ita operation the coun-' tion of 300,000 Springfield muskets, with try weuld he compelled to pay in the fort j 1 i!l the accoutrements, among the negroes

year, to whi:h the indebtedness was ex-

ten. led bv it. the enormous sum of 820.000,000,000. Was it any wonder that the houdholder was the champion of the : radical party ? This matter of finance is the one that overshadows all others, and j the people are demanding to know what is beinir done with the enormous sums realized from the various sources of revenue, It is expended in keeping in subjection ten states of the union with a large standing army ; the infernal freedmen's bureau by which four millions of negroes, whom the radicals say should be made the equal of the white man, are maintained at the expense of the people, and in 'the support of a vast cloud of hungry office holders. On the payment of the national debt Mr. Packard was very clear in his views as to himself, not speaking, as he said, for his party. He would wipe out our national banking system, which was a great swindle, and substitute as a currency the issues of the government. Suppose, said he, the government had retired 300,000, 000 of its five-twenty bonds, and issued in lieu thereof what are known as greenbacks, we would have saved the interest upon this vast sum, and had a currency vastly superior to that of the national banks. We now have the inferior currency and pay $18,000,000 per annum in gold for the luxury. He said he did not blame the banker. The democratic party, said the speaker, are in favor of the taxation of the bonds as a clear right that congress possessed, and as a matter of justice to the taxpayer. To this the radical party were opposed, and not only favored exemption from taxation, but desired to fasten the debt upon the country for forty years. The whole radical policy upon this subject was a fraud. They would tax the forty acres of land from which the poor man obtains his sub sistence, but the millions of the bondhold er were freed from tax. The poor man pays a tax upon all that he cats and all that covers him, in f at upon everything used by him from the cradle to the grave. The discussion of the frecdrnau's bu- j reau next demanded the attention of the speaker, and the care that the government extends over the blacks of the south, while the iuterest of the white man, both north and south, is neglected, was ably examined. The radical prty were instilling into the mind of the negro that there was no necessity for them to labor ; that the government would care for thf; inculcating naoits o inaoience acstructive of the negro himself. On the other hand the whites of the country were compelled to labor, not only to sustain themselves, but to support the negro. The speaker illustrated the questions involved iu sustaining this adjunct to radicalism with great force. He appealed to the voters of the couutry if they desired to put an end to this system ot maintainence of national pauperism to cast their vote for Horatio Seymour, as it would be a death blow to the freedman's bureau. The whole tendency of radicalism in connection with the freedmen was to use them as as a political machine to retain possession of the government in that party. He referred to the history of those governments where there existed a mixture of races. The mongrel government of Mexico, professedly republican, was reviewed, i howing that the mixture of the races there had degraded her as a nation in the eyes of the civilized world; without honor, and not respected by any of the civilized natious of the world. This is what the mingling of the races has prodeced everywhere where the experiment has been tried, and yet a radical congress are attempting to force upon the people of this country a system that will produce like results. Wherever the experiment has been tried of conferring political rights upon the negro it has proved a failure. The democratic party are opposed to it. While the radicals have fully committed themselves to it by forcing it upon the people of the south, in the Di-triet of Columbia and in the territories, aod only wait the opportunity of ta8tening negro political equality upon the people of the north. They are taking privileges from the whites and extending them to the negroes. That they favor it at the north he said that Gov. Morten, Schuyler Colfax, and Gov. Baker had canvassed Ohio for the purroso of inducing the people of that state to submit to the negro being made the equal of the white mun, politically. The doctrino in dangerous and untenable. It is already fastened upon the people of the south. If I it is right to force it upon the white people ot the south, it is right that the people of the noith shall submit, and if the republican party is retained in power they will endeavor to engraft it upon the laws of every state. This wrong perpetrated upon the people of the south, is a stab at the whole nation. But it is not right, and no power on earth can make it right. The determination of the radicais to

of the south. It was for the purpose ol - fl 4 a

arming the ignorant black? acrainst the whites in order that radical supremacy might be maintained in the ten southern states. It was to prepare the negro for the work of death if the whites of the south refused to be ruled by them. It was by this moans radicalism designed to control the elections, and waen asked by the conservative element of congress to desist, they turn upon them and ask what they arc going to do about it. Auothcr attempt to defraud the whites of the south of their political privileges, was that of depriving them of a vote upon the choice of a president by giving the right into the hands of carpet bag, scalawags, and negro legislators of casting the electoral votes of the states, when it i s a well known fact that that the members of these legislatures were not elected with reference to the presidential question. This" is an outrage upon the political rights of the people, but in cntirekecping with the radical policy. The speaker then contrasted the candidates before the people. The democrats present the name of Horatio Seymour, the pure statesman, patriot, and citizen, one in whose hands the people can safely trust their interest, with a full belief that the government will be administered in the interest of the masses of the people. On the other hand the Radical party have eiven us tue name or lien. .rant. .i man o wanting in all the qualifications of a statesman, one who has agreed in advance to submit himself to the control of party leaders; one who is without experience, and win will not be able to free himself from the trammels of such men as Sumner, and the other lenders of the extremists in Congress, and one who. in all pro j Lability, will not only bring disgrace upon himself, but upon the country. The whole theory of our government would be changed under his administration of its affairs, and congress itsell would become the government, as they now attempt to nrjke it. The speaker closed hie remarks with several good humored hits at the leaders of the radical party, and an earnest appeal to his democratic friends to labor fur the success of their ticket, believing, as he said, that all our hopes for the future, and of free government depended upon the election of the Democratic nominees, , This is but a very im per feet outline of the eloquent an convincing speech or Mr and nQt jQ thß effurt tLat justice that it demands. He was listened to attentively, aud tho frequent outbursts of applause indicated that the people ap. predated the' effort. The speech cannot fail of good results, as it will attract idic attention of the peoj. le to the enormities of radicalism as being carried out under congressional domination. At the close of Mr. Packard's speech, Hon. M. C. Kerr was called out, but owing to the lateness of the hour excused himself to the audience, when the meeting adjourned. Radical Estimate ol' the Radical Candidate. The careful readers of the Tribune, if they have good memories, cannot fail to remember the following sentiments and language expressed by it within a year in regard to Gen. Grant : "Gen. Grant we esteem by no moans a great man, nor even a very great general ! j VV e wact a statesman ; we want Mr. Chief Justice Chase. The republican party contains no purer, no worthier no more gifted man. In what respect does Gen. Grant surpass Mr. Chase ? 'Is be a better Re publican ?' we ask Gen. Grant; No re ply. If we want, then, to talk about horses and tobacco, we may find him the most valuable of men. NOT ONE WORD UPON THE QUESTION THAT RACKS THE HEART OF THE COUNTRY ! 'Take me, if you will, as Ulysses S. Grant, ana when I am president I will do as I please.' Perhaps wo mu?t take him, but wc do not feel like cheering over it; certainly not so long as great statesmen remain in ou r ranks. Give us Grant because wc can elect him.' Again that cowardly argument. Is there nothing in this party but office hunger ? Is the chief end of man the post-office and revenue service ? Are we willing to follow a doubtfoul leader into an uncertain battle for unknown principles V These are no democratic utterances. Are the democracy censurable if they do not "feel liko cheering" over a candidate who refuses to be tried by any declaration of his own policy, aud yet permits his nauie to be used for the 'ndvantao of those whose practices develop the worst polices and principles. Onions vs. Etidemics. Onions as a specific against epidemics are recommended by a correspondent of the Scientific American. If sliced and kept in a sick room they will absorb all atmospheric poison. They should be replaced by a fresh one every hour. It is noticed that in the room of a smallpox patient they blister and decompose with great rapidity, but will prevent the spread of the disease. Their application has also proved effectual in case of snake bites.

LET IS HAVE PEACE.

The southern winds that gently blow Are laden with a cry of woe, 'They waft ten millions freemen's sighs; "While loud a mocking spirit cries. Let us have peace! Pale liberty has veiled her face, To hide from siijlit the foul disgrace; And trembles as the unsheathed swords Ring plaudits to those mocking words: Let us have peace! Affrighted Justice nerveless stands, Her balance srrasped with tremblinsr hands, While bayonets guard her sacred hall. Where drums roll out the mocking call: Let us have peace! Lost Union walks with mournful tread Anion: the graves where lie the dead, And chants a hopeless requiem there; While mocking spirits shout in air: Let us have peaci-! Reunion with the cypress weaves Her budded, but now faded leaves; Her blighted blossoms wide are cast. Before that chilling, mocking blast: Let us have peace! The nation sinks beneath the weight Of endless debt and ruined state; Taxation makes its tierce demand, "While armies shout throughout the land: Let us have peace! "Peace reigns In Warsaw" o'er the dead "The empire's peace" with freedom lied; So stalks the conquerer through the land; And shouts with flaming sword in hand: Let us have peace! Look the Quest ion in tbc Face. What is the remedy for the crushing evils of increasing debt and taxation under which the Auiericau people are stag- ' Tori n fr t n rinrorf i T 'i nil ruin P .lriiwirir. strate by official figures published in our paper to-day, that with all the enormous taxation with which the people arc burdened, the debt is steadily increasing. Is it reasonable, after the experience of the ! last three years, to expect diminished exPCUS2S and a consequent reduction of tax ation, it the radicals are allowed to remain in power and contiuue the same policy ? If last year, with all its mean-of revenue, and its actual collection of $471, 000,000 of revenue, did not prevent an increase of the debt by over 342,000,000, now can WG evcr hope to get rid of the debt aad crushing taxation under radical rule ? We ask our readers to consider the nutter Ctrl lid I J, an 1 siy if it is not time there Was a change of men and measures if justice to themselves and their children does not demand a change. Put it may be asked, wnat will the democrats do to remedy these evils if they arc entrusted with the administration of the government 7 lathe language of Darius A. Ogden on a recent occasion, wc answer -"we will introduce honesty and ccono m)' ln the administration and expenditures, disband thirty thousand of your I army, aud save thereby 350,000,000 a year; we will abolish the frecdmau's bureau and save 81 2,000,(00 a year more; we will pay 8100,000,000 of 5-20"s in greenbacks or legal teuders, and thus save 25,000,000 a year in gold equal to S:i2, 000,000 in currency; we will pay $330, 000,000 of bonds in greenbacks, tho bunds being held as security for national bauk notes, and thus save 818,000,000 a year in currency, and all this without disturbing the currency, or adding to its volume even, by substituting non-interest paying notes or greenbacks for interest paying bonds and bank notes. We will retrench and cut down and cut off useless officers and expenses, stop the stealing aud plundering, aud thus save at least auothcr 850, 000,000 a year, and the graud total will be this. Saved iu army and navy annually " 850,000,000 Saved in freedmans bureau, 12,000,000 Interest ou bonds, 00,000,000 Reducing miscellancous expenses, stopping leaks stealing and and 50,000,000 Showing a grand saving of 8172,000,000 And this by a simple change. How soon would this enable us to reduce taxes, aod pay the public debt, to restore prosperity to the people, and to bring back the good old days of the Republic when government bonds aud bank notes were equal to gold and silver, and when equal laws, equal taxation and common blessings would be the commou lot of all our people." This, theo, is the remedy : Vote out the radicals and their policy, who believe iu standing armies, military dictation aud uti2qual taxation, aud put iu democrats, who are opposed to staudiug armies, and will hold the military subordinate to the the civil power, who will rule iu love, who respect the guaranties of the Constitution, who will seek to produce fraternity of feelin;, good will and equal rights, and thus lift up the country, stimulate industry aud produce wealth, as well as reunion, good will and love. Issac Reil, a dissipated man, living a solitary lifo at Cleveland, had his shauty cousumcd by firo lately. Mr. Bell's unfortunate manner of going under with the I flames rendered fuueral ceremouies unnec essary. During the past three years President Johnson has pardoned fifteen persons convicted by the United States district court, at Baltimore, many of whom were first class bank defrauders and whisky robbers.

NEWS ITEMS.

If Adam had lived till Sunday, he ! ... . ' " i would have been 5,803 years old m Whist is rapidly taking the place of croquet at the watering places. John Allen, " the ex-wickedest" man is going into the lecturing business. h Mark TwaiD' 13 in Cleaveland, and .i . i . . - they want to get a lecture out of him. The old Washington headquarters at Stanford, Vermont, is being toru down. -Rob. Brcttle. a shining light of the 11 l-i n Ti 1 xt 1 ! CiDguso r. arrivca at ew xoric, on Monday. MissBraddon, the celebrated English novelist, is coming to New York in December. The inventor of Planchette is said to have cleared 850,000 already out of the toy. -PuChaillu, the celebrated African traveler, will lecture in New England this winter. it ia me lasiuon now ro say r.iac a . man a little the worse for liquor is on a ''Grecian bend." ttorney General Evarts celebrated his silver wedding at Windsor, Vt., recentCornelius Vanderbilt can draw his check for 31,000,000 at any time, and get it cashed, too. The cadets at West Point say there have been only four pretty girls at the Point this summer. Kehoc, the Indian club inveutor, denies that he died of apoplexy, the other day, as the pnpers reported. Cora Pearl, the notorious Parisian lorettc, is coming to this country. The young prince imperinl of France has a great taste and aptitude for music, which his father steadily discourages. One of the Harper Brothers has not been in the second story of his establish-! mcut for fifteen years. Beecher, Tilton, and Fred. Low Olmsted, patronize the Turkish baths regular ly in New York. Robert Browning ban made but very little niouey from his poems. He lives ou his private fortune. -T WO base ball clubs in Rochester, N, Y., rejoice in the names of " Early Birds'' and " Unfortunate Worms." John Hamilton committed suicide in the Brooklyn City Park Tuesday eveuing, by taking laudanum. Col J. N. Morris, of Quinsy, Illinois, lost a 2600 horse Weduesday shot because of a broken lc2. The .Sew York Mail says that the fashion of exchanging photographs is entirely done away with. Good. Silver and golden anklets for ladies, to be worn outside the stockings, are about coming into fahion. Gazzaniga, Roconi and Albites arc soon to start a singing college at New York, on the European plan. Miss Alice Placido, the well known actress, has opened a school of dramatic instruction in New Orleans, The New York papers advertise exhibitions of the safty coffin under the head of " Amusements." Edwin Buoth has lately purchased some M cloth of gold " for his new costume of Richelieu, at 8125 per jard. Elias Sudduth, of Harrison county, Ohio, who is 108 years old, reads without spectacles, and chops his own firewood.

t.,tt :..i,r ll. i' Harpers and Ticknor fc Fields are each preparing separate editions of the poems of the late Charles G. Halpinc, "Miles O'Reilly." Mrs. J. B. Phillips, a leading lady in the Richmond theatras for several years before the war, died lately at Patersoo, New Jersey. Nathaniel Wheeler, the sewing machine man, is said to be a candidate for the next democratic nomination for governor of Connecticut. The Chicago Sorosis is trying to start a weekly orgau after the style of the HcrolutioH. It has the money, and that is the great point gained. Mrs. Myra Brodwell, of Chicago, wife of Judge Brodwell, will begin ou October .'Id, the publicatiou of the Chicago Legal rVJ wt. A correspondent writing from Saratoga, says he never saw so much female beauty here in any previous season. Congressman Judd, of Chicago, has given 81,000 to put a Chicago memorial window in the new Metropolitan Methodist church at Washington. The Christian Rtguttr pertinently asks, "Will the coming women work ? " The editor gallantly answers, Yes, if you give her the opportunity." Richard O'Gorman has returned from his stumping tour in Maine, seriously ill. The youug Marquis of Bute hs iust become of age, with au income of $1,500,000 annually.

-jvuvMJlslauUtut uu ia-o i.nu i Charleston has been tor some time very is now tenanted by about twenty clerical activc in it3 military preparations, aigoesta, mostly Low-church Episcopalians. I ti10Uirh dead, armareutlv. to every Otber

--Walter Brown's friends want to send him to England to row Thomas Kelly, the

English oarsman, who beat James Hamill so badly a year or two ago. --The Ohio state normal school, at Lebanon, opened last week, with over 200 students. --McClellan & Parker s distillery at Peoria, was burned on the 21st ult. Loss $80,000. --Dr. Clayton, of Memphis is in jail, awaiting trial for poisoning L. Kraft, one of his patients. --Capt. Charles W. Clark, of Vicksburg, is coming to Ohio to stump for Grant and Colfax. --The Times and Conservative newspapers of Leavenworth, Kansas, have been consolidated. --A steam fire engine exploded at Portland, Maine, the other day, under a pressure of only forty-five pounds of steam. --Trains on the Union Pacific railroad now run through from Omaha to Black Butte, seven hundred and ninety-three miles without change of cars. --Fifteen brass bands of Indiana have annouced their intention to attend the state convention at Franklin, Oct. 8th and 9th, and compete for the prizes. General Wm. Steadman has been nominated by the republicans of Portage and Summit counties to fill the unexpired term of Hon. P. B. Conant, in the Ohio senate. --A terrific tornado passed through the valley of the Minnesota river on the 10th ult., destroying many houses and barns, and fatally injuring Mrs. George Briggis. --The new Putnam county court house and jail at Ottawa, Ohio, have just been completed, at a cost of $32,762. --Amanda Garloch left her home near Evansport, O., on the 21st of July, and has not since been seen or heard from. She is about twenty-five years old and deranged. --The reports from the Sea Inland cotton country are very gloomy, and the crop will be almost a total failure. Caterpillars are destroying many plantations along the coast. --The Grecian bend has made its appearance in New Orleans, and the board of health is called upon to take some action to restrain the spread of the dangerous epidemic. General Rosseau, while at the Paris fair, in Kentucky, recently, bought a fine Arabian stallion for $800, and a saddle horse at $500. The remains of Edwin A. Stevens, the Hoboken millionaire who lately died at Paris, have arrived in New York and will be interred at Hudson city with imposing ceremonies. He lies as low as those less wealthy during life. --Nearly 25,000 persons have ascended the cupola of the Massachusetts statehouse during the sixty-seven days it has been open since the adjournment of the legislature. ---<>--- A DEPLORALE PICTURE OF THE SOUTH. --A gentlemen traveling in the South writes in the following strain to a friend of his here North: I arrived safely yesterday at twelve o'clock, after a pleasant passage. The contrast betwen the scene presented here and in New York is enough to shock the feelings of any well wisher of the south. All seems to be dead here in the way of commercial activity--wharves empty of shipping and the streets as quiet as a burial place. I am told that

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tactics ready for tho graud event which they are doing all they can to brinj: about ' under the instigation of white men a collision between the races. The citizens of Charleston arc now perfectly gatufied that the result of radical teachings to the uegrocs of this place will be to bring about I i a negro insurrection with the view of exterminating the whites and influencing tho ! couutry against the democratic CftMt. The indications of a settled design U) atermiuate the white race upon the firt .vcasion is so apparent that the most respec

table white citizens, nm.ong whom are Mr. Paniel Ravcncl and Mr. Blftf, have net together in cousultation and liae sent Senator Campbell to Washington to laj the whole matter before the pvoudost, asking not for asssistauce but for advice, h w t act when the necessity is upon them, to defend their lives onu property. The radical programme to be curried out by the negrcos and their control is to make a cleao sweep of the rebels by the men w ith arms in their Lands, and they to be followed up by the women with tcrches, so that there will be none left to tell the tale. These are facts not to be disputed. I wish the democratic party of the North could rcalifc these things before it i too bte. I counsel all who value life and J property to keep out of this country u-til we pass the coming ordeal. Those who survive will breathe freely aain, there is much trouble before us still. but