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PROFESSIONAL CARPSt-. »t>wif r. BAMMOUtk rgoMtr. /.arm.** HAMMOND & SPITLER, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Rensselaer, Indiana. *Woffic« in Court House. •l.ly. •*'«, DWIMIXS. Kr.THOMrSOM. DWIGGIN3 b THOMPSON ATTORNEYS AT LAW, T<rOTARIEB PUBLIC, Real Estate Old -L-N Insurance Agents, Rfc(.ss»L*KßjuY>i Office in McCoy’e Dauk Building, up-ittira. Wm. l. McConnell, ATTORRRY AT LAW -ANDMrOT.A.XT.'W X 3, TTX3X*XO, BENBSELAER, INDIANA. ’ ~7 «L- •• I W..IW MUe In Lnrut's Stone Building, up stairs. 1 i.-ly- ... GEORGE H A SCA I.L, REAL ESTATE ACENT AND JxroTAmr x’xtxitjTC, Remington Indiana. All business attended to promptly. Deeds and Mortgages always •wr han<L ■ 1-17-ts-JOHN BALDUS, ; Real- Estate Agent, Front St. Rensselaer, ludlana. Will buy and sell land, and rent houses and farms. Those-." ishing' to purchase .can secure good farms or town property on reasonable terms bj sailing on him, orby letter. AxJdress, John Baldus, .'Rensselaer, Indiana. .LFMCUTHOMrSON *. McCoy Ac THOMPSON, R A NKERS. RENSSELAER. INDIANA, and sell Ccln .nd Domn.tlc Exchange auctions <sn ell eveilebK points, pay 1* wrest on specified ti mq depositee, end transect etl bustnes. in their line wicA'iisp.ie*. jTj»office hours, from 9 e. rn.toi p. in ao 54 lr. DR. G. A. MOSS, Ornes—Front room, upetairs, first f»,r, 3lumgh*l Buildlug, Rensselaer, DR J. H. LOUGHBIDGE. Rensselaer, - - - Indiana. ®roffle» on Wethington utreeL SAMUEL FENDIG WILL PAY THE - HIGHEST MARKET PRICE T CASH ! For Bidet, Feathers, Ruga, Poultry, Butter, and ALL KINDS OF COUNTRY PRODUCE. Give him a cell before .oiling elsewhere. l-Ib-Jiiio* ”d iTV AL. L’S blacksmith shop Is in operation, next door above the Express Office RENSSELAER, IND. All kinds of blacksmithing done to order «7-tr DAILV HJCH LUTE AND LIYERY STABLE. H*ek» ran daily (Sunday* excepted) tetween,Reusueluertiiid Bradford, on the C &. L R R, and brtweewjlousselaer and Remington «a the T L Ac B. R It. # AUSTIN HOTEL John M. Tn good Style as a Hotel, would *«- pectfully inform the travelling public, that he id .prepared to accommodate kept in connection with the houie, wtere the stock cf tmvetera will be properly attended to by good and careo hlboa&rn. bJ7< •

THE RENSSELAER UNION.

Vol. 1.

THE DOORSTEP. BY E. C. STEDMAN. The conference-meeting through at last, We boys around the vestry waited To see the girls come tripping past, Like snow-birds willing to be mated. Not braver he that leans the wall By level musket-flashes litten, Than I, win) stepped before them all, Who longed to see meget the mitten. But no, she blushed and took my arm! We let the old folks have the highway, And started toward the Maple Farm Along a kind of lovers’ by-way. I can’t remember what we said, ’T was nothing worth a song or story. Yet that rude path by which we sped s Seemed all transformed and in a glory. The snow .was crisp beneath our feet, ■The moon was full, the fields were gleaming; By hood and tippet sheltered sweet Her face with youth and health was beaming. The little hand outside her muff— O sculptor if you could but mould It!— So lightly touched my jacket-cult, To keep it warm I nad to hold it. To have her with me there alone,— ’Twas love and fear and triumph blended; At last .We reached the foot-wch stone Where that delicious journey ended. She shook her ringlets from her hood, And with a “Thank you, Ned,” dissembled, But yet I knew she understood With what adaringwishl trembled. A cloud passed kindly overhead, The moon was slyly peeping thro’ it, Yet hid his face, as if it said, “Come now or never! do it! do it !” My lips till tbeu had only known The Mbs of mother and of sister, But somehow, full upon her own Sweet, rosy, darling mouth—l kissed her, • .i , Perhaps ’t was boyish love, yet still, O listless woman! weary lover! To feel once more that fresh, wild thrill, I’d give— But who can live youth over? —Atlantic Monthly

[From Mayne Reid’s “Onward.”] The Prose of Peace.

“Let ns have it—if wo can ; over all the world. But not without questioning the circumstances, and taking opinions upon it. A few are herewith appended. ******* •‘fa it pence* that I, an Englishman, should work three hundred days in the year, God, not man, allowing me sixty-five holidays; fiftytwo of them set apart for his own special worship, the other thirteen oi secondary consideration? Three hundred days of toil, for which I ccivo a suit of fustian or corduroy ; a smock-frock to screen them when they become ragged ; a pair of clogsoled shoes that cause corns on iny feet and make me lame before I am forty ; a dietary scale, that includes not fresh beef—only salt bacon, not of the best, and it only on weeks when I :un lucky enough to have work ! When not, it is skim-milk cheese to accompany the bare bread; both to be choked down, not with beer as yon may have heard, but what, for all I know, may be better still —cold water! I don’t quarrel with the cold water, if the bread and cheese could always be assured to me. But they are not. A week’s sickness, and the cheese disappears from my table. A fortnight, and the bread must be begged for, or eaten within the walls of a workhouse I “And yet I am told that my three hundred days of toil are worth much more—that ten of them in a tropical clime wonld give me all I want to weag and eat; and that thirty in any part of the temperate zone should ensure me the same ; or at all events be a sufficient set-off against my corduroys and tjkim-milk cheese! “It it be sp, and I have reason to think it is, thftp must I be cheatecT out of 270 days in the year ! “Is this peace ? If it so be, rfany me if I like it!” *» * * * *. * * “Is it peace, that I, a Frenchman, toil just the same as an Englishman, only with a little more skill, because my brain is a little more concentrated ? But I toil with no better reward. ’ v ? | ' “I can beat Jiim in stitching gloves, in weaving silks and laces, in contriving the plots bi novels and stagepl ay ß —for his authors are but translators from me. “What signifies either rny skill or originality? They.give me only a garret in the*Rue Vivienne, and a chair imon'the Boulevard ; where it is true I have iny cigarette, with a glass of sucre,’ a«d can show my striped stockings and patent leather shoeS to the ladies passing by. But still it does not seem what it ought to be. Most of these ladies are robed in silk, and sparkling with diamonds ; and I know that the men who pay for both do nothing at all, while 1 work hard in my atelier or sturftoTat tunes having to clean my own shoes, and wash my own shirt! a Sacre! It isn’t comfortable. It’s not substantial. Is it peace?’’ * * * » ** * “Is it peace, that I, a German, who work harder than.either Frencbman or Englishman—»oh ! they ere idlers when compared with me!—-late night and early morn, that I should be toiling at my trade, art, or pro-

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session, with a labor equalling his. who piled Pelion upon Ossa? Is it peace that four years of iny life—the very flower of my youth—should be spent in practising the art of war ? And to what end? Solely that I may know hbW to defend the prince or potentate that robs me of my toil —nay, more, treats me as an inferior thing—fit only to do subservience, and pay tax to him 1 “Dander und blitzen! Is this as it should be ? Is it peace ?” • * * * * * * “Is it peace, that I, a Spaniard, having within my veins the best blood of Iberia, and in my brain the records of the Conquistadores —having also a strong tendency towards republicanism—should be compelled to submit to a monarch, now a king, now a queen whoso character has disgraced me throughout Christendom? Andto a Church that not only constrains my conscience, but taxes me till I have scarcely enough left to keep body and soul together ! “Caramba! Is this what you call peace?” * * • » * * * “Is it peace, that I, an Italian, who fought for it under the brave Garibaldi, and was promised it by the king of Piedmont, should find under this same king my toil continued, and my taxes as great, if not greater, than ever? Should find too that this tax goes not to relieve my fellow-countrymen, but to support our ‘Re Galantuonio' in his courses of dissipation, that we all know to be of the most disreputable kind? “Must I eternally toil for this—l who above all men, and. all things, love the dolee far niente? “ Cospetto! Who calls this peace?” * * * * * * * “Is it peace, that I, a Turk,—a disciple of the true Prophet, and descended from the great conquerors of Stamboul, have to crawl through its streets, not daring to look my Pasha fair and square in the face, but day by day in dread of the bastinado ? Is it peace that I must pay away four-fifths of my hard scrapings —not by way of backsheesh., but in a levy taken without leave, and out of my chatties, if I refuse it ? And for what purpose? To support some scores of lazy Pashas, and our Sultan with his thousand beautiful wives, whose faces 1 am never permitted to see! “Bismillah! is this peace? By the sword of the Prophet, I prefer war!” * » * * • * * “We are no better off,” says Greek, “with a foreign king forced upon us by the great Powers, not only to tax but restrain us from giving help to our more oppressed brethren in Crete. If we must have a king, give ns one of our own countrymen. Better Polvcrates - than this half-German, halt'Danishprincelet. But we don’t want either. We want no king at all. What we wish for is peace under a republic. Give us that, or give-tt9~wftr+” - ~— “And so say we—Swede, Dane, Dutchman and Russian—all we oppressed peoples!”

The Widow of the late Augustus N. Dickens.

Mr. Charles Dickens has written the following note to the London News: “Sir:—l am required to discharge a painful act ©fAuty,*imposed upon me by your insertion in your paper of Saturday of a paragraph from the New York Times respecting the death, at Chicago, of ‘Mrs. Augustus’ N. Dickens, widow of the celebrated English novelist.’ The widow of my late brother, In that paragraph referred to, was iiever_at Chicago; she is a lady now living, and resident in London; she is a frequent guest at my house, and I am one of the trustees under her marriage settlement. My temporary absence in Ireland hus delayed for some days my troubling you with the request that you will have the goodness to publish this correction. I am, Ac., “Charles Dickens.” “Belfast, Jan. 14.” [Nevertheless, Augustus N. Dickens, “brother of Charles Dickens, the celebrated English novelist/’ lived with the deceased at Chicago, as his acknowledged wife for years, and never denied being the father of her three children, as we have heard.—Eds. Un- ....

A spellist conies out thuswise, in a late issue of the Pontiac, Michigan, Jacksonian: “HoLLX, Dec. 30, 1868. “Mr. Editor:—l propose to spel with enny man womern, or boy in OU'land county for 1100 aside, the wqMs to be Dejected by a cominitY of literary gents, aud the prise to be rewarded by the empires to the one who mises the fewist words. — If ypn here of euny one wlio darrs to.take up this cbaierige, let them, pitch in, solns bolus. I’m redy, , Yours, etc., “Absalom Sbxafx.”

OUR COUNTRY A.ND OUR UNION.

Gift Swindles and Lottery Enterprises.

There arc over two thousand of those dwindling establishments in New York. There are about thirty heavjL concerns, w’hich do the principal business. Thesecbang'e their location and their names often. By a flourishing concern the nnmbrer of ’letters received daily is from two hundred to five hundred. These letters come mainly from the country—many from the West, more from the South. The swindles are based on some pretended benevolent ■scheme. -X- ***** * A favorite mode of swindling is carried on by men whose “sand* of life have almost run out.” Trie party represents himself as a retired clergyman; one who has suffered long from asthma, or from a bronchial affection, or one nearly dead withdyspepsia, or wasting away with consumption. Through a recipe from an old doctor, or an old nurse, or an Indian, the party obtained relief. Out of gratitude for the recovery, the healed clergyman or individual gives notice that he will send the recipe “without charge” to any sufferer who may desire it. Circulars by the thousand are sent to the address of persons in all parts of the country. Each person is required to put a postage stamp in his letter, for the transmission of the recipe. Thousands of letters conie back in response. The recipe is sent, attached to which is the notice that great care must be taken in securing the right kind of medicine.— Not one apothecary~ht a hundred in the country has the medicine named. The benevolent holder of the recipe adds to other things, that should the party riot be able to get the medicine, if he will enclose three or five dollars, as the case may be, the New York party will make the purchase and send it on by express. Dreaming of no fraud, the money is sent as directed. If the medicine is sent on at all, it costs about fifty cents to the buyer, and a handsome business is done. If the swindle takes, the party will pocket from twenty to fifty thousand dollars, break up the concern, and be out of the way before the victim can visit New York. The thirty large gift establishments receive about live hundred letters a day. Full three-fifths of these letters contain money. Some of the letters detained by the authorities were found to contain sums as high as £3QO. Directed to different parties, they are taken out by the same persons. The medicine swindle, and gift enterprises are run by the same parties. This advertising for partners is worthy of especial notice. A man with a capital of from one hundred to five hundred dollars is wanted. He can make one hundred dollars a day and run no risk. The victim appears. lie has a little money, or his wife has some, or he has a little

JJI aCv llv C *lll 111 V L* A 11V swindle is open to Him. The basket of letters is opened in his presence. He is offered a share in the dazzling scheme. He pays hisjneney, helps open the letters for a day or two, and then the scheme dissolves in the night. Almost all thestf large* swindles have smaller ones that go along with them. The names of the parties who are carrying on these gigantic swiudles are well known to our police. The managers have been arrested a dozen times. Broken up in one place, under a new name they open again. Thousands of letters are sent to the police headquarters from victims asking for redress. But not one of these letters is a complaint. Without a complaint the police are powerless. The victims belong to the country. Most of them have a respectable standing. They knew the thing was illegal when it was presented to them. It was a lottery, and nothing more. When they sent their ten dollars to secure the prize, they knew it was a cheat on their part, for they had bought no ticket, and if there was a prize they were not entitled to it. They dare not commence a suit against Ifiese parties and come to Nq>v York and prosecute it. The swindlers understand this perfectly well and defy the authorities. If gentlemen from the rural districts swindled and will be parties to the cheat, refuse to make a complaint or back up the complaint in the courts, they must take the consequences. > • - In almost every case gift enterprises are carried on under 'an assumed name, and when arrested the parties prove that they are not the men who carry on the business. — When goods are seized an owner appears, not before? named, to replevin the f|t,ack. A. A. Kelly seems to have been the originator of this method of swindling. He began in Chicago with the Skating Rink. He then catne to New' York and began the gift enterprise and dollar lottery scheme. He got up a Mock Turtle Oil Stock Company. He swindled a man in Erie county, who had him indicted. He was arrested by the P2*j ce on * bench warrant, sent to Erie county to be trfed, and is now serving the State in prison. Read & Co<> ChnI ton Hall, how’ doing tholargeMgfl

lottery business in the city, cannot | be found, though the police have arrested the subordinates a dozen times. One of the great firms in New York was run by Clarke, Webster & Co. The police came down on tho establishment and took away six truck loads of books, circulars and goods? They fonnd directories for every town and city in the country. What were not printed were written. No ijiuch individuals as Clarke, Webster <fc Co. existed. A man known as Wm. M. Elias appeared as the owner of the goods, and demanded them on a writ of replevin. The police refused to give them up, and gave bonds. The goods still remain at the headquarters. Many victims who receive notice that their ticket, which they never bought, has drawn a prize, and who are requested to send on the ten dollars to pay expenses and percentage, try to do a sharp thing. They send the ten dollars on to General Kennedy, the Superintendent of the Police, with the request that he will pay it and take the present if all right. Such parties generally get a sharp answer from the official, telling them that gambling is unlawful; that the business they arc engaged in is gambling; that the whole concern is a swindle; and that they had better put their money in their pockets and mind their business.— Advertisers Gazette.

John Bright.

A wrter says: “It is about a quarter of a century since John Bright entered the British house of commons. He first entered parliament toward the end of the session of 1843. A member of that parliament relates that, as he was follow* ing Mr. Bright out of the house the last day of the session, he heard the doorkeeper say to an old tory county member, as Mr. Bright passed them: ‘Ah! that new man will give you plenty of trouble before you have done with him.’— That be should ever be a cabinet minister would then have been universally regarded as an impossibility.”

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. Dark hair is'the rage in Paris. Mrs. Gen. Grant is a Methodist. A white quail has been seen in Mexico. Toads are worth fifty cents a dozen in Paris. They have a 770 pound yearling calf at Maquoketa, lowa. Ipswich manufactures annually 30,000 codfish lines, worth 115,000. All the ciste'rng in—Des Moinesare as dry as Rensselaer bummers. Miss Anthony thinks Mr/Train “the special creation of the liiheteenth century.” Seward denies the story that there are any negotiations for the transfer of Cuba pending. Great Britain bas taken possession of the small island of Starbruck, in the Pacific. An unsuccesful attempt has been made to poison President Guzman, of Nicaragua. The expedition in search of gold on Cocos Island returned unsuccessful and disgusted. The Maori cannibals of New Zealand have been badly defeated by British troops, at Poverty Bay. Report has it that Pike has lost half a million through the failure of his dyking enterprise. A colored lad has been appointed one of the pages of the New York Legislature. “Neither pianos nor children admitted,” is the notice on a New York boarding house, bill. The smallest baby in Hartford is three months old and - weighs less than two pounds. Not worth the trouble. .. * The Jay Gould party made the trip from St. Louis to Louisville in eight and two-thirds hours, running time. * It is stated that President Johmon has intimated that Dr. Mudd may be pardoned before the 4th of March next. From Constantinople comes the rumor that Nye is to take the place of Morris as Minister of the United States to Turkey. •An ingenious chap wants to contract to keep the Hudson River from freezing, by sinking artesian wells

The Universalist denomination han more papers than any other body of its size in the country, so say Geo. P. Rowell & Co. One hundred and eighty persons have been added to the church at Oskaloosa, lowa, in a recent revival. A Linn county, lowa, schoolmaster has been fined $lO for “talkingback”: to a minister while preaching in his school-house. The annual egg product of the United States is estimated at 1,520,840,000 dozen, worth, at T 5 cents a dozen, $228,126,000. Mr. Henry Chance, of Ohio, said at the late temperance convention in Michigan, that General Grant has signed atotal abstinence pledge. An Austrian author asserts that the first Napoleon had twenty-qne illegitimate children, five of whom are still living. The census of Salt Lake City, recently completed, shows a population of 38,000 Mormons, and 8,000 Gentiles, a total of 46,000. A hog weighing 1,200 pounds, standing three feet six inches high, was lately shipped to New York from Columbia county, Virginia. There are five Sovereigns in Europe who are umnarried; six widowed; one divorced ; tweifty-five mirried, and one (the Sultan) much married. The oldest Sovereign in Europe is the Pope—seventy-six. The average of the thirty-eight monarchs now on European thrones is forty-five. The youngest is twenty-two.

During 1868, there died seven members of European royal families. The royal births numbered twentytwelve princes and eight princesses. The marriages numbered eleven. The Ohio Statesman says the “uh timate cause” ot the death of Dr. E. B. (51ds was the “harsh and brutal treatment he received when in Fort Lafayette.” Mrs. Clark,, of Burnsville, Belmont county, Ohio, has just discovered that her husband, who has been missing lor twenty-three years, was kilted in one of the battles of the Mexican war. • The Shawano (Wis.) Journal says: “From all quarters comes the cry of scarcity of snow; and, unless we soon have a new supply, there will be suft'enng for teamsters and loggingTHcir?* - The first immediate result of the assassination of the Governor of Burgos, at the hand of some unknown Catholic fanatic, is the declaration of religious equality by the Provisional Government of Spain. One thousand miles of the Union Pacific Railroad are now completed and in operation. Only two hundred and sixty-seven miles remain to be built to connect with the Central road'from the Pacific. * A lady residing in Ridgeway, Lenawee county, Michigan, sued a saloon keeper to recover money spent by her husband for liquor.— After an exciting trial, the jury returned a verdict in her favor for $65. The Governor of Chiriqui, Senor Calancha, is to be at once removed from the office he has sb signally disgraced, and the one hundred and fifty soldiers who have been pillaging the country for a length of time past, are to be recalled. Snow fell in such abundance in St. Petersburg and its suburbs the latter half of December that in several streets it rose to, 12 feet in height. Accounts from the Russian provinces state that whole villages are buried under drifts. Oranges were frozen solid on the trees at ? St. Augustine, Florida, on Christmas day. The thermometer at daylight stood 20 degrees above zero. It afterwards tell to 17 degrees. The yearbefore at the same time, the ladies were dressing in lawh. The official report shows that the Portugese troops lost in their fight against the natives of Mozambique, on the eastern coast of Africa, 12 rifled guns, 10,000 cartridges, 200 barrels of powder, and the flng"of the First Infantry Regiment. Fifteen officers I.

"lUfiae hay j'ebft i» UiiWyt,* is the New York slang for a gw<-tor-wbose- ' strategy instead of money. W W.MarW, ode of the prominent men of Alabama, died at.hH h Thskcgce <Jti' tiii' Of ths 28 lb wit, 1 ,r A Southern paper objects to the dangerous “practice or shooting one another, so prevalent in the South,”' Advices from the lumbering dis* tricts of the North are very unfavorable. The operations at Nottawassaga and Georgian Bay arc .almost, suspended on account of the snow, rendering it impossible ter gel the lumber out, •_ <— ■ A Georgia m» n has discovered • preparation which destroys the taste of alcoholic drinks. [lf he could only discover a preparation that would destroy the taste for these drinks, he would ben the greatest humanitarian the World ever produced.—Eos. Union.] The President of the State of Bolivia, in view of the impoverished' condition of the Treasury, and ing ,tlm necessity for studying economy during the present year, has decreed that the entirfe State’ troops be disbanded from the 31st of December last, aiifl that the orily force to be maintained in active service shall be a Captain and ten men. Four steam canops, constructed at Laziue, near Toulon,, for the mail service on the Canal of Suez, have been embarked for conveyance to Alexandria. They are built of ma/, hogany, and furnished with awningf*. for the protection of passengers— Two of them belong to M. D. Let»sup’s company, and two to the Viceroy of Egypt, The adulterations in ale is the latest text of the New York World’s 1 investigations. Ale should be the, product simply of malt, hops and, water, yet the samples submitted to the chemist were found to be drugged with alum, lime and salt,'with strong hints of cocculus indicus. Sallis put in to excite thirst, alum to produce a bead and a bitter taste, and Mifib' to correct acidity. Cbccnltts indb cus goes in to replace the bitterness lost by over-diltilian with water. ' Two. boy# living near* Meridan, Mississippi, aged respecliv/ely ten and thirteen,; while out <abbftnhunU. ing recency, felled & tree so awkwardly, that the arm of the elder •• was caught,.mangled, and .hopelessly imprisoned between ,tlie ,rtutnp; -and* the prostrate trunk. He told his companion to chop off the captured member, which was done with one blow of the ax. The boys staunched the blood as best they could, and both walked home. ■ / ■ Joshua Sweet, while trimming trees in the woods ’it Falmouth, Maine, accidentally struck with- his ax a lad named Marston, aged ten years. The ax glanced, andTstriking the little fellow in the body) cut into him so deep that the wound left the liver exposed to view. A teamster passing the spot first discovered the ghastly sight of the dead child, and then Sweet, who was lying on the ground near by, writhing in convulsions. ■ San Francisco is to be supplied with ice from the summit of the Sierra Nevada, in a very novel way. A party of speculators have constructed an ice-house capable of holding 800 or 900 tuns of ice, near the Pacific Railroad traek. From a stream on the hillside above, a flume has been run to the top of the ice-house, where the water is allowed to fall in small jets or spray into the building below. In this manner they expect gradually to form a mass of solid ice which will fill the entire building. A rich old farmer, aged seventy, in Cuyahoga county, Ohio, proposed marriage to a designing young chit of sixteen, and was accepted. The old man’s grown-up children had their amatory progenitor apprehended on the charge of lunacy. The Judge gave him a sound lecture On the subject of deceitful women, which so opened his eyes that he left the room vehemently protesting that he didn’t marry nobody, no ! how. r - A In New Haven, a Sunday or two since, a clerk in the Yale. National Bank, stepped into tbe bahk to sen t if everything was right there*, when he found a man lying in front of the stove, asleep, with n cushion under his head. He immediately ’ secured ’ some one to watch |he prpniises while be went for a poliqe officer. , He secured one, and the map was taken tb the station. Upon exsml- *; nation it was found ihat'ne had brn- T ken out a pane of glass in the window? apd effected an entrance iuthM witx., i after which hpi the money drawer by cutting khole through me top of the counter with his knife, but finding took N cn -

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