Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 June 1869 — Page 1

Podra. :;' , NEEDLES Atffi pi NS. Yk urn trlvltt thing*, With Invisible wlng«, > t and pins j Common and mean, Good pointed and keen. Useful alike to the cook oroheainaen, Ilrlght needles a'jd pins. ,' Mon have waxed wroth ifor the Want of ye both, "KTee'Hee and pits; • i have tailed, Reddened and paled, ilunted and soelded till langnege has railed, For peedles and plua. ~ '■ W- ■ I Reads ronndod and bright, * ' Eye* single and light, , "•-{pliisskilr’— tgms< '•‘Fwowtdop and the grace V" ’ k ‘ flityinaatlnand lace. And ttwlooV of content on that young huababd's ..V Lis -Ye liave hidden tjtii'renl - ,“ '■ -In the heggai SKiarnuaV 1 , . NS-d!e?and , F?na? r - 1 ‘ As ye've mended bis tears. Ho ye’ve lightened hie cares. Till agdltrhe has lived of yonr aid Tot repairs, Fright needles and plus. “ Bnt where do yon go When your work’s done,” we’d know, Neenle.sand pine? What nook do yon find, Ho secret and kind, That a morul no trace of your brightness can find, , f Lost needles and pins ?

Selected Miscellany.

The Man in the bell. iN.my younger days, bell-ringing was muchjmijje in fashion among the young men of - than it is now. Nobody, I believe, practices it there at present except the-servants of the church, and the melody bps been much injured iu couse quenca,, Some fifty years ago, about twenty ofrtis whl) dwelt in the vicinity -of the cathedral, formed a club, which used to ring every peal that was called for; -and from continual practice and a rivalry which arose between ub and a club attached *to another steeple,- < and whiohtended considerably to sharpen our zeal, we became vary .Mozarts on our favorite instruments. But nay was short%ied by’a dingdlaf accident, which not oftty stoppedray perfbrilßflree, but made even the sound of & bell terrible to my ears. , One riuuday, 1 went w,ith other into the tjfelnV to ring t?ir noon pfAyers, but the second stroke we bad pulled showed us that thefclauper of the .bell we were at was Aufll id. one had Been buriefl* that morning, and it had been prepared, of courstL tfc ’ring a mournfifl note. We ilid not kndwbf AM, bdt the remedy was easy. “ Jack.” said my companion. “ step up to the loft, and cut off the hat ? ? for the way we had of run 111 mg was .by tying a h|t, oyof (the forsapf was prelerreu), to oneslde of the clapper, which deadened every second toll. I cdfcplfijd, audmounting into the belffy,\ crept as usual into the bell, where I began to away. The hat had been tied on in somuAhore edmplicated manner .than usual, and I was perhaps three or four miuutesin getting it off; during which time my compuniptb below was hastily called away—by a message from his sweetheart, Llmlieve—but that is not mates al to my story ■ The person who called him was a'bwithir of the club, who, knowing that the time had come for ringing for service, and mot thinking that any one was aboTO, began to pull. At this moment I wastjust,gettihg out, when I felt the bell moving; I guessed the reason at once—-it was ififadmeift of terror; but by a hasty and almost convulsive effort, I succeeded in jumping down, and throwing myself on the flat of my back under the bell. ThftOo&tin which it was, waa little more than sufficient to contain it, the bottoif ]pf the; bell coming wi,thin a couple of feet of tne floor.of lath. At that time I certakfly was-not sq bulky as iam now, but as-I lay it was' within an inch of my face.„ii ; hafi not laid myself down a second,Vhen the rihgtiig b< gan It a dreadml-situation. Over mu swung an immeMe mdss df metal, one touch of whiewould have crushed me to pieces; the rocr under me Was pAiicipally composed nfmrazy lathi, andjf theygave w»y. I was precipitated to theolitance of about fifty fedt upbu a which w ou W, in all probability, : haVe sunk under the impulse' of myvfaJV and sent to be dashed to. stoma upoif fne marled flbok or tho chancel, a hundred feet below. I remembered —for fear is quick in Recollection—how a' com mon ckicjkweight, abotit a month before, had fhlcn, ana bursting -through the flobia of the steeple, drove in the ceUings of the porch/ arid even broke into the marble tombstone of a bishop who slept beneath. This ’f ai thy” first terror,. but the ringing had not continued a minute, before a more aw fill dnd immediate dread came on nfo. The deafening sound of the bell smote into my ears with a thunder which made me fear their drums would crack; there was Ml °f my body itdid not-thrill i through. It entered my very soul; thought and reflection were almost utterly banished; I oqlv'retained the sensation of agonizing lerrir, Every moment 1 saw the belt sweep within an inch of my fafce; and my eyes-rdiooald not, close them, though tolook w;the object was as-bitter as death—fdlloweiiSt instinctively in its oscillating progrtaA’until H came back again. Tft was in vain, L said to myself tliat it could come mo nearer'at any thtiire swing than fVdid' at first:.evarytiqu l it descended, l endeavored -to Mditikubto the very floor to avoid b® l * l *, bpttfid under the down-sweepipg mass / aMbtndh, reflecting on the danger of pressing toq weightily on my frail supporC’XuLi cower up again as far us I Af*ArS# ifcy fears were mere niattess'of fact.J wa%afraid thepulleys above would * i 7 e “"MAhLd let'the bell plunge on me At another time, the possibility of the clapffcfWanfe slot out in ««e sweep, and dashing through my body, is I ham seen a ramrod giidTT through a door, flitted across my mind. The dread also, as I have alreaffknedtMnwL pf (be craky fIoCL tormented me; but tnese soon gave way to unft *tnded/ bnt mere vk(-f ion ary, and* pf courne more tremendouß. rOTOTtisM r K sg

THE RENSSELAER UNION.

VOL. I.

abtss. As I gazed on it, it assumed all drapes; it was w flying -eagle, or rather a roc of the Arabian story-tellers, clapping its wings and screaming over roe As I looked upwards into it, it would appear sometimes to lengthen into indefinite extent, or to be twiated At the'end into the sniral folds of the tall of a flying dragon. Nor was the flaming breath or fiery glance of that fabled animal wanting to conmlete the picture. My eyes, inflamed, bloodshot,; and glaring, invested the supposed monster with a full proportion of unholy light Lt would be endless were I to merely hint at all the fancies that possessed my mind. Every object that was hideous and roaring presented itself to my imagination. I often thought that I was in a hurricane at sea, and that the vessel in which I .was embarked tossed under me with the moat furious vehemence. The air, set in motion by tks swinging of the bell, blew over me, nearly with the violence, and more than the thunder, of a tempeet; and the floor seenqCd to reel under me, as under $ drunken man. But the most awftti of all the ideas that seized on me were drawn from the supernatural. In the vast cavern of the bell hideous faces appeared, and glared down on me with terrifying frowns, or with grinning mockery still more appalling, . At last, the devil himself, accoutred as in the common description of the evil spirit, with hoof, horn, tail, and eyes of infernal lustre, made his appearance, and called on me to curse Qod and worship him, who was powerful to save me. This dread suggestion he uttered with the full-toned clangor of the bell. I had him within an inch of me, and I thought an the fate of the Santon Barsisa. Strenuously and desperately I defied him and bade him begone. Reason, then, for a moment, resumed her sway, bat it was only to HU me with fresh terror, just as the lightning dispels the gloom that surrounds tne benighted mariner, but to show him that his vessel is driving on a rock, where she must inevitably be dashed to pieces. I found I was becoming delir ious, and trembled lest reason should utterly desert me. This is at all times an agonizing thought, but lt smote me then with tenfold agony. I feared lest, when utterly deprived of my senses, I should rise—to do which I waa every moment tempted by that strange feeling which calls on a man, whose head is dizzy from standing bp the battlement of a lofty castle, to precipitate himself from it, And then death would be instant and tremendous. When I thought Of this, I became desperate. I caught the floor with a grasp which drove the blood from my nails; and f yelled with the cry of despair. I called for help, I prayed, I shouted, but all the efforts of my voice were Of course drowned in the bell. As it passed over my mouth, it occasionally echoed my cries, which mixed not with its own sound, but - preserved their distinct character Perhaps this was but fancy. To me, I know, tfley then sounded as if they were the shouting, howling, or laugh ing of the fiends with which my imagination had peopled the gloomy cave which swung over me. There is no man, however m%y by, wh*x»ttld retain his .courage in‘this situation. In twenty minutes the ringing was done Half- of that time passed over me without .power of computation—the other half appeared an age. When it ceased, I became gradually more quiet, but a new fear re tained me. I knew that five minutes would elapse without ringing, but, at the end of that short- time, the bell would be rung a second time, for live minutes more. I could not calculate time I feared to rise, least the five minutes should have elapsed, and the ringing be again commenced, in which case I should be crushed, before I could escape, against the walls or framework of the bell. I therefore still continued to lie down, cautiously shift ing myself, however, with a care ful gliding, so that my eye no longer loeked into the hollow. This was of itself a considerable relief. The cessation of the noise had, in a great measure, the effect of stupifying me, for my attention, being no longer occupied by the chimeras I had conjured up, began to flag AH that now distressed me was the constant expectation of the second ringing, for which, however, I settled myself with a kind of stupid resolution. I closed my .eyes, and clenched my teeth as firmly as ir they had ueen screwed in a vice. At ia&t the dreaded moment came; and the first swing of the bell extorted a groan from me, afi they say the most resolute victim screams at the sight of the rack, to which he is for a * second time destined. After this, however, I lay silent and •lethargic, without a thought Wrapt in the defensive armor of stupidity, I defied the bell and its intonations. When it Ckased, I was roused a little by the hope of escape. ■ I did not,’ however, decide on this step'llastily, but, putting up my hand with the utmost camion, I touched the rim. Though theringing had ceased, it still was tremulous from the sound, and shook i apdermy hand, which instantly recoiled as Amka electric jar. A quarter. of an elapsed before I again dared to msHrxhe experiment, and then I found it at rest. I determined to lose no time, fearing that I might have lain then already too long, and that the bell for evening service would catch me. This dread stimulated me, and 1 slipped out with the ut most rapidity, and arose I stood, I suppose, for a minute, looking with silly wonder on the place of my im pri'onmcnt, penetrated with joy at escaping, but then rushed down the stony and irregular stair with the velocity of lightning, Mid arrived in the bell-ringers’ room. This was the last act t had power to accomplish. I leaued against the wall, motionless and deprived of thought, in which posture my companions found me, when, in the course of a couplo Of houfg, they returned to their occupation.

They were shocked, as well they might be, at the figure before them. The wind of the bell had excoriated my face, and my dim and stupefied eyes were mixed with a lack-lustre gaze in my raw eyelids. My hands were thru and bleeding; my hair disheveled; and my clothes tattered. They spoke to me but I gave no answer. They shook me, but I remained insensible. They then became alarmed, and hastened to remove me. He who had first gone up with me in the forenoon met them as they carried me through the church-yard, and through him, who was shocked at having, jn some measure, occasioned the accident! the cause of my misfortune was discovered. ’ I was put to bed at home and remained for three days delirious, but gradually recovered my senses. You may be sure the bell formed a prominent topic in my ravfogs, and if I heard a peal, they were instantly increased to the utmost violence. Even whs* the delirium abated, my sleep V. ■!. • • ♦

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA JUNE 10, 1869.

waa continually disturbed by imagined ringings, and my dreams were haunted by the fancies which almost maddened me while in the steeple Time cured this as it does most of our follies; but even at the present day, if, by chance, my nerves be unktrung, some particular tones of the cathedral bell have power to surprise me into a momentary start. Ballou’t Monthly.

A Character.

Pah awf>y dow.n on 8t Anthony street is a row of dilapidated buildings, mossgrown and worm-eaten, where the vine excludes the light, and the shadows of noon are as fresh and cool as the air at dawn. The cential one is inhabited by a wizard, whom the people around him call a voudou: He is wrinkled and gray with age, and his long white beard reaches his waist. Stooping and palsied, his walk is slow, but his fierce, black eyes gleam with a baleful light. He was sought a few days since by one who had lost some treasure. It was supposed the old man’s supernatural power could enable him to find it. The man told his story of how a thief in the dead of night had entered his house, and carried away his property. The old man looked at him earnestly for a moment, and then inquired: “ You want me to find it?” “Yes.” “Money then?” and he extended his withered, hand for the accustomed dole, which was readily paid. “ Now listen to me,” said the wizard. “ Do you see this stick ?” holding to him an oaken staff. “ Yes.” “ Well, now you must mounj it, as when a child you rode stick horses, and go capenug up the street, shouting, lost! lost! lost!” “ Why people will laugh at me!” “No matter. Do as I bid you, and almost before you know it, a beautiful woman will appear, and lead you where the stolen treasure is conceakd.” Incredible as it may appear, the man had faith to follow bis instiuctions. Mounted on his stick horse he went capering up the street yelling lost! lost! lost! People poked their heads out of the windows to inquire the meaning of the singu lar spectacle, but the only reply to eager questio. ing was the cry of lost! lost! lost! A policeman happening along supposed the poor fellow crazy and took him to the lock up, from whence next morning he was sent to the asylum. But it being soon ascertained that he wasonly superstitious, and not mad, he was released thoroughly cured of his belief in voudou prescience. He at once instituted suit against tbe aged wizard for obtaining money under false pretences. But the old man contending tbat if his instructions had been followed he would assuredly have met the beautiful lady and recovered the treasure, the justice dismissed the case remarking simply “ that a fool and his money are soon parted.” —New Orleans Pie ty une, May 27.

Daniel Webster’s Fright.

No situation more perfectly paves the way for a hearty laugh at the end, than that of two strangers obliged to be together and in mutual terror of each other Nothing can be more comically uncomfortable than a couple of honest men eyeing each other askance an hour or two, when all the time “one is afraid and tbe other daresn’t. - Upon one occasion, Mr. Webster was on his way to attend to his duties at Washington. He was compelled to proceed at night by stage from Baltimore. He had no traveling companions, and the driver had a sort of felon look which produced no inconsiderable alarm with the Senator. “ I endeavored to trarquilize myself," said Mr. Webster, “ and had partially succeeded, when we reached the woods between Bladensburg and Washington (a proper scene for murder or outrage), and here I confess, my courage again deserted nm” “ Just then the driver, turning to me, with a gruff voice asked my name. I gave it to him. “ Where are you going ?" said he. The reply was “ to Washington. I am a Senator.” Upon this, the driver seized me fervently by the hand, and exclaimed, “How glad lam 1 I have been trembling In my seat for the last hour, for when 1 looked at you I took you to be. a highwayman.” Of course, both parties were relieved.

Do Ton Take the Responsibility?

The moral of the following anecdote is not bounded by its temperance application. Who cares to take the responsibility of leading any one Into any wrong doing ? A young man had been sadly intemperate. He was a man of great capacity, fascination and power, but he had a passion for brandy which nothing could con trol. Often in his walks, a friend remonstrated with him, but in vain; as often, in turn, would he in vain urge his friend to take a social glass. On one occasion the latter agreed to yield to him, and as they walksid Up to the bar together, the barkeeper Said,— “ Gentlemen, what will you have f “Wine, Mr," was the reply. The glasses were filled, and the two friends stood ready to pledge each other in renewed and eternal friendship, when ho paused and said to his intemperate friend, — “ Now, if 1 drink this glass of wine and become a drunkard, will you take the responsibility ?” The drunkard looked at him with severity and Said,— » “ Bet down that glass." It was set down, and the two walked away without saying a word. 0, the drunkard knows the awful consequences of the first glass I Even in his madness for liquor, he Is not wilting to assume the responsibility of another becoming a drunkard. “Muck”—“ What is Mi ck ?”—This question comes to us almost every month in the year, and now and then we answer it, as we would he glad to do twelve times in a year if that were necessary. " Muck is money," says an English proverb. Muck is manure in English parlance, and covers pretty much everything that is soft or moist and pasty. We apply the word almost exclusively In our agricultural technology to the partly decayed vegetable matter of swamps and peat mosses —even applying U to peat fit for fuel, if it be used as mffeaure or as an absorbent in cattle stalls. After getting it out, let it-freeze tnd thaw, or if on drying it is not very hard and lumpy, compoet it with.lime and it will become fine and crumbly. It is often rich In ammonia And always useful in oomposts.— American Agriculture,

OUR COUNTRY A.IHI> OtJR UNION.

[From the Tolado Blade.] MR. NABBV AND UlB CONPEKRRRA HOLD A COMMERCIAL CONVENTION AT THE COHNBHB—AN ACCOUNT OF TBE PROCEEDINGS THEREOF A UKM AHKABLB OMISSION WUIOH WAS AFTERWARD REMEDIED. Post Oma, OoamaiT X Roane, I (Wlch li In the State av JConfedrit X Roads cannot be said to be, in the Northern sense of the term, e prosperous town. The fact is IU railroad facilities are not uv the beat, the nearest l one to us bein some twelve milee away, and ite other roads are not so gorgiotu ez cood be desired. They are passable for wagons in Joon, duly and August; for mules in April, May, September and October, and the balance av the time they mite possibly be navigated by fiat boats, es the citizens hed anything in pertikeler to leave the town for, or es anybody pertikeler desired to come to it Tbe citizens, now that they are onct agin in full akkord with the General Government,, and been thoroughly reconstructid, felt, that they hed borne neglect uv their interests in silence ez long ez cood be expected nv the impetuous Southern nacher; and also, that the time hed come when the lead in cities uv the Sonth shood make some effort to avail theirsflves nv the nateral advantage uv their position, and wrest from the North the full share uv the trade uv the Continent, to wich they are entitled. We uv the Cross Roads, felt that we hed too long accept id a second rate commernhel pneishen, and we felt that we cood not endure it longer. It wuz therefore resolved to hold a commershel convenshen at the Cross Roads, to take these matters into consideration, with rich others as might suggest therselves. Invitashens wuz sent to all the princl pie leaders uv the Southern masses, and uv em it wuz confidently expected tba' Breckinridge, Lee and Boregard would be present. The convenshen assembled on the day sot. It wuz one uv the largest and most enthoosiaatic it hez ever ben my lot to at tend There wuz delegates present from Secessionville, Davistown, Boregard, and all the towns in that section uv the Btate, represents tbe-intelligence and wealth uv the real old Kentucky stock uv those localities. , Gen. McDingtls, late C. 8. A_,nv Secessionville, wuz made President, with thirtytwo Vice Presidents, wich comprised ail the delegates present. This wuz done ez all uv em seenild to want to be officers. Gen. McDingus stated the object nv the convenshen to be the divisin uv the means to increase the commershel importance of the section, -Jo develop her resources, to increase her manufakterin interests, and to show the recooperative power the South possesses. Kentucky wants manufakters, Kentucky wants commerce, Kentucky wants populaahen, and to devise means uv gittin these is the object uv our sssembiin. He begged the members to commence to-wunst. Kernel McPelter, from the Committee on Invitashens, wuz about to perceed to read letters he hed received from prominent Southerners, when O&pt Podgers, uv Davistown, begged leave to offera resolooshen. He saw sittin in the convenshen, with ez much ashoorence ez tho he hed a rite there, a wretch, with whose name he woodent sully his mouth, who hed come from Massychoo— no, he woodent sally his mouth with the name nv the State—from a ablishn State, and hed startid in Davistown a factry for makin pig iron! employin therein thirty-five men, wich hed bot a plantashen nv a diatrest planter and put thereon twenty houses, a akoolhouse and a church! He stigmatized this man ez a carpet-bagger. He hed been repeetedly warned by the citizens nv Davistown to leave, but he hed lafit at the warning. ,On threatenin his factry, he hed armed his operatives with donble-barreled shot-guns, and with these hed held the citizens at bay. This man hez strength enuff to keep up his factry, but he shd not sit in convenshen with Southern gentlemen. Major Bsngum remarkt that at Boregard they hed different ways nv meetin these difficulties. A carpet-bagger from Pennsylvany undertook to start a store at Boregard, but we nipt it in the but at the beginin We gave him twenty four hours t> leave and he left. Hed Capt. Podgers oominenst in time, afore the evil took njk>t, it cood her bin eradicated. Deekin Pogram statid that an attempt hed bin made to plant a cotton factry on a waterpower at Confedrit X Roads, and gave in detail the method adoptid to pre vent it, both speeches bein receeved with cheers, which showd that the Souther n heart wuz still ez Southern tz ever. Capt. Podgers offered the followin resolooahen. Rescued, That all carpel-bagger* be reqaeated to leave tbe Hall durln the aessioa av the convunnhen. * It wuz carried with loud applause* after wich Capt. McPelter read the letters he hed receeved, or rather passed am over to me to read, ez I do the most uv it for the Corners. » Jefferson Davis— President Davis, I exclaimed, ez I kiat the letter—regretted that he cood not be present. HU heart still beat for the Sunny Bouth I cood git no further with the reading this epistle. The most enthusiastic and ’vociferous cheers it hez ever bin my lot to hear broke from the throng in the bnildio, Capt. McPelter endin with the genooine Southern chargin yell, at wich the niggers in the vii-inity uv the buildin grew pale and took to the woods. They’d heard it afore* and not bein advised that the meetin wuz purely a Commerthl Convenshen. they wuz seriously affrighted. G(rural Boregard regretted that he cood not be present, but— Agin l wuz iuterruptid by cheers wich made the roof shake, and the members uv the Convenshen threw up their hats to an extent wich fairly darkened the air. Letters wuz attempted to be read from other noted leaders nv the South in the late unpleasantnis with the vandals uv the subjugatin States, bat at the menshen uv each uv their names thecheerin was so extraordinarily vociferous ez to prevent anything bein heard: At this pint, while the enthusiasm wus at the big nest pitch, Deekin Pogram riz, and remarkt that Confedrit X Roads wuz, he wuz aware, painfully defisbent in many things. They hed but one store, and that wuz run by a' despicable carpet-bagger, and Baacom’s whisky wuz not alius uv the best, but one thing she cood boast nv, namely, her wimmen. “ Stand up Mlrandjr!” be remarkt to that gushin damaal; “ and tbe others in the gallery may ez well rise likewise,” wich they all did, wavin Confedrit flags and bustin out into that ever Inspinn anthem, “ The Bonny 8100 Flag.” “There,” remarkt the Deekin,

NASBT.

“ there is our Jewels. Three cheers for our daughters ?” ■ The effeck nv this was somewhat spiled S r a dozen or more quadroons, risin with irandy and the rest nv em! Tbat ojua demorallzin vifiin, Joe Bigler, who delitea in spilln tetchin tabloos, hed em rang in tbe gallery all the time, and he sprung em onto ns thus crooelly l Gen. Belter, nv Boregard, offered a resolqoshen denonnein the reoonstruckshen measures, President Grant and his Cabinet, the oppresive Naehnel debt, carpet bag gars, and the Republican parte; Major Flair offered one lmplorin the Northern Dimooraoy to stand firm agin the constooshnel amendment; C .pt McPelter one inalstin on the revokashen nv sill laws bearin onto those who hed served on tbe side nv States rites doorin the recent collision uv States, all uv wich wuz adopted enthoosiastioally, when the convenshen adjourned tine die. > ‘ The delegatee, congratulatin each other on the noble work that hed bin done for the South that day, took a partic drink at Bascom’s at the expense nv our citizens, wich Bascom wood not set lt out till some responsible citizen, wich hed land with not more than two mortgages en, wood make himself responsible for em, and wuz a gettin into the wagons to duot ont. for their respective homes when one nv em remarkt—- “ We’ve forgot one thing I” .“No wehevint,”„remarktGen. McDingus. “ We’ve done everything that’s yoosual at Southern commershel convenshens. We’ve cheered for Davis and Boregard ; we’ve admired the wimmen, denounst the abolishen party, and demanded our rites—wat more wuz there to do ?” “ We haint sed a ouasid word about commerce.” “ Thunder I” remarkt the General, “ it’s a fact D—d es it did’nt slip my memry entirely. We must assemble agin." And the meetin was agin t convened. The work wuz accomplished in short order. Resolooshens wuz passed demand in tbe buildin nv a railroad by the ginral Government from Davistown to Secessionville, and four different lines nv road to the Pacific, with branches endin at Confedrit X Roads, Secessionville, Davistown, Boregard, and sich other V’wns ez mite consider it to their interest to hev <m. In addition to these it wuz demanded, that dredges be taken from the harbors on Lake Brie and other Northern waters, and kept twelve months in the year at work in Camp Run to keep it navigable to the Ohio river for boats uv all classes. A resolooshen wuz offered demandtn uv the (Government the buildin uv a levee around Deekin Pogram’s farm, a part nv wich ts frekently overflowed in the spring and tall, and also the graTiin or plankin uv the roads in the county, but it wnz considered best to withdraw uiese ez they didn’t feel like askin too much to wunst. Other resolooshens wuz passed demandin recompense for the loss uv niggers, and property destroyed doorin the war, in order that there might be that harmony so mnch to be desired between the Government «nd Kentucky, and the meetin ad jaurned, this tipie for keeps. Es these neks nv justis is done, well and gooff; es not Kentucky protests. The Crinvenahen hez hopes nv results follerin its ackahen. Petroleum V. Nabby, P. M., (Wich it Post Master.)

Senator Morton on the Indiana Ratification.

It was announced the other day, by telegraph, that Ur. Senator Uorton, the great constitutional lawyer of the Senate, had made an argument, through the Indianapolis Journal, In favor of the validity, in substance and In form, of the ratification, by the Indiana Legislature, of the proposed Fifteenth Amendment. That argument is now before ua. In his usual style, clear, cogent and exhaustive, the Benator presents the case. It is quite too long for publicat ion entire. But, aa the final adoption of the amendment, in case the Indiana ratification was valid, is no longer doubtful, the matter is deserving of special consideration. Much has been written and said about it before, but now, for the first time, has a conclusive, unassailable, vindication of the Legislature been furnished. The facts in the case are too well known to need more than the briefest restatement. * The Democratic minority in the two branches of tire Legislature resigned their seats in order to block the wheels of legislation, and thus defeat ratification. They so far succeeded on their first resort to this trick that the balance supposed themselves a mere rump, “hanging on the verge of the Govern meat,” and went home, whuethe Governor proclaimed an election to fill the vacancies thus made. The re Signers having been re-elected, the Legislature was called again. After the ordinary business of the session had been nearly completed, and the Fifteenth Amendment was to be taken up again, the Democratic faction resorted to the same trick. In the Senate they were partially thwarted by a little sharp practice on the part of the majority; but In the House a vote wae not reached until the resignations had taken effect and been duly recognized. As the Senatorial ratification would amount to nothing standing alone, the dispute ia this: Was there, after the resignations, the necessary quorum t The Legislature, when the trap was first sprung upon them, thought not, but, by the time ihe trick was played again, the members had changed their minds at least they had so far changed their opinion that they resolved to test the matter. If any of them were troubled in the least with misgivings, this masterly argument must have set their minds at rest. When fully represented the Housqfonxists of 100 members, the Senate of 50. Th« eleventh section of the third article of the Constitution declares that “ two thirds of each House shall constitute a quorum to do business.” Now, the final question is, Does “two-thirds of each House” mean of the actual members at the time, or of “all the members elected to each Rouse ” Here all the controversy lies. The Senator’s argument on this point deserves to. be distinctly and fully understood. We therefore give it as it stands: Section 18, of Article IV., reads as follows t “ Every bin •halt be read by sections on three several days, In each Honse, nnless, in caw of emergency, by avow of two-third* of the Hoaw where each bill may be depending. It shall be deemed expedient to dlapesw with this rule." The eorreepoadlng provision la the old Conatltnllon of ISt# waa In these words: « Kvenr biU shall be read on three several days In each House, unless, by a vow of two-thirds of the House where the bill may. be depending, it ahall be deemed expedient to dispense with this rule." It hae never been the practice, under either Constitution, that the suspension of the rales req sired sixty seven votes la the House, or thirty lour lathe Beasts, although the phraseology la precisely the same with that employed la the ale Tenth section

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or the fourth irtloto, which declares that •• twothird* of each Home shall conatltate a quorum to do boalnaM.” If the phrase “ two thirds of each House" means slxtr-aeven members in the .Hoaso of Kepresentstlres and thlrtr-fonr in the Senate to Make a quorum, It woold mean the same thing for the suspension of the rules, which her been settled the other way. Bv section fourteen of article four, two-thirds of either House may expel a member, if by “ two-lhlrds of etihor House" la meant rixty-eevan votes In.the House and thirty four In the Senate, then a Kepreseniatire could never be expelled by less than thirty-four votes, which Is not contended by anybody. If It were so, and the House of Representatives were reduced to sixty-revan members, It would reqalre the vote of every one to expel a member for corruption, Including that, of the culprit himself; and nts expulsion would destroy the Legislature. But It Is said this view cannot be maintained, because by the twenty-dfth section of the seventh artlnie of the Constitution, It la provided that “ a majority of the members eleoted to each House shall be n oners ary to pass every bill or joint resolution.” That ander this section 11 tty-one votes would he required to pass a bill, and therefore that the quorum could never consist of less than fifty-one members. It will be observed that the language or this section la en tlrely different from that of the seventh section, which provides for the quorum. The eleventh section declares that “ two-thirds of each House shall constitute a quorum bat this section declares that " a majority of all the members elected to each House shall be necessary to pass every bill or jolnlrerolutlon.” This, th refore, la an Independent and arbitrary provision, regulating the final 'passage of bills and joint, resoTntions, and haa nothing whatever to do with the question or the quorum. Again, in section 14 of the 6th Article, the votes of a ** majority of all the members elected to each House IH required to pass a bill over the Oovernor's veto. In the Ist section of Ar tide 16, the Legislators, by the voles of a “ majority of the members elected to each of the two Houses ’’ may snbmtt to the people propositions to amvnd the Constitution. And again. It Is Srovlded in the 7th section of Article 6. thst tate officers may be removed from office for crime. Incapacity or negligence, by Impeachment or joint resolution, two- birds of the members elected to each branch vo'lng In either esse therefor.” “ Two-thlMs of the members elected to each branch" or House Is a very different statement from “ two-thirds of each House,” and is obviously used In a different sense. “ Twothirds of each House ” refers to Its present or actual condition, while “ two-thirds oi the members elected to each branch " Or House refers, to the number originally elected, but which may have been reduced by resignation, death or expulsion. It hi a two-thirds vote In each case, but twothirds of different aggregates. In the one case U 1s two-thirds of the actual membership of the Honae, whether it consist of one hundrea Or sixty members. In the other, It is two-thirds of the members originally elected, which number may have been greatly reduced. This is complete and inexorable. Prom its logic there is no escape. Mr. Morton shows that his interpretation is that adopted by Congress aud by State Legislatures generally, viz.: that “a majority of each House ”ls a majority of the actual members. All fear that the ratification will be held invalid may, therefore, be dismissed.—Chicago Journal.

A ’63 Rioter Snubbed by Judge Dowling.

Soon after the opening of the Court of Bpeclal Sessions, yesterday morning, a lawyer appeared to defend a prisoner for » petty t flense. Justice Dowling took a sharp look at the lawyer, and after a while inquired his name. “Andrews,” replied the lawyer. “Yes, I thought so. But you aTe so much altered with your whiskers shaved off that I hardly recognized you.” Then raising his voice, Justice Dowling continued in a very determined manner, “ Well, sir, yon can’t practice in this court. I have told you so a dozen times. Now, clear out" “ But, sir,” put in Andrews, “I am a member of the bar.” “ I don’t care whether you are' or not,” thundered the Judge. “Isay you can’t practice here, and that la enough.” “ Will your Honor than please remand the prisoner until my partner can be sent for to defend him?” “ I don’t want your partner here. I say that I will not allow yon to practice in my court. Now get.” The lawyer, amazed, hastily made his exit. “Prisoner,” continued Justice Dowling, “ seeing that you are your own counsel, the Court discharges you.” Andrews is the Virginian who harangued a crowd of rioters in Lexington avenue in July, 1863. He was tried for this crime, and sentenced by Judge Nelson to three years in State Prison. Some how he obtained a pardon before the expire tion of his term of Imprisonment, and managed to get himself admitted to the bar. We never beard of him again until yesterday. —New York Sun, May 28.

Grant’s Administration and the Public Debt.

In the month of March, the first month of President Grant’s administration, the decrease of the national debt wae over two millions of dollars In the month of April the decrease was considerably over millions. And in the present month, the third of a Republican administration, the decrease will be nearly, if not quite, thirteen millions of dollars. The books of the Treasury Department have been balanced up to to-day (May 29), and they show for the month, as follows: Receipts from customs $12,549,000 From InWrnal revenue. ......... 1T.152.000 Total $29 Ti 1,00 Expenditures tame period 16,800,100 Leaving for decrease of debt $12,901,000 The probabilities are that, for the whole of the month of May, the excees of re- I ceipte over expenditures will be over, rather than under, thirteen millions of dollars. Tims, in the first three months of the administration, do we find, practically, a reduction, of our debt of about twenty millions of domrs. In other words, Grant manages to have the debt reduced even more rapidly than. Johnson managed to have it increased. Grant has the same party to sustain him in Congress that Johnson had to carry on the Legislative Department of the Government.— Chitago Pott.

Grant’s Vindication in Dollars and Cents.

There has been much grumbling over General Grant’s appointments, and some of them may have provoked it; but the fact Is not disputed that the currentrevenue, since they were made, shows a large increase over tbe corresponding weeks of last year. Now the taxes have not been increased; our political adversaries say that the country is not prosperous; and it will puzzle any one to account for the increased receipts into the Treasury on any other hypothesis than that of increased efficiency in the collection. We believe the income of the Government since General Grani’a inauguration has exceeded that of the corresponding period of last year by fully five millions of dollars, and that our national debt has been reduced, over and above any reduction expected in the spring months of 1868, by fully tan milliona We submit these facts as a full justification of thachangee made by General Grant. — Net* York Tribune. The fastest bycicle time has been made I in Jersey City—e mile In two minutes. v * .

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FACTS AND FIGURES.

California has raised a sun flower weighing 87 pounds. About 18,000 dead letters are opened'' and disposed of daily. > r '•VTTTr, Thb Leipzig publishers sold, In 1866,' $10,000,000 worth of books. Thb new French twenty-five franc gold pieces will be called JCmpereur*. , . One of the Austria u Archdukes is saM to be a kleptomaniao—in plain SngUete—a thief • , The French Post office cinfecatee nine out of ten newspapers sent ttom this conntry. Bpht Harrison, Private Secretary to Jeff. Davis during the war, is practising law in New York. - Thebe are said to be 15,00* ootMmuoieants to the various reliirtou* churches eta i ihe western coast or Africa ~ Thkkk are 820 * Protestant Band*y„ Schools in France, 160 in Germany, 250 in Switzerland and 250 in Holland. ' A widower went to Manchester, N. H , one day recently, burled Us with;and left town with a new made bride On the dtif following. / - hi;-. Thb C anadian Rifle Association win die-, tribute $4,500 worth of prizes, at the, annual tournament, at Halafax, in August. A servant girl at Newberg, N Y ,'was recently 100 much for a burglar. SfaeT 1 poured a gallon of hot water over- him, and he left the premises in a hurry. A London clergyman advertkos that he will “ lend his weekly sermons for halt acrown apiece, or four for 10a, warranted “original, earnest and evangelical.” Six cflnrche-i have been orffai&lfa in ’ Mexico on the basis of the Biro ih word of God—s spontaneous movkaueuti 1 without any foreign intervention, the sao- ; raments administered without any f^- ( darned minister. ( , Geobob Pbabodt has written to the town of Georgetown, Mass., stating that' it is his intention to supply all the fondk '■ needed to snstain the public library whidk • he has given to the town, and also prp-.j smiting $4,000 toward the, permanent fund. Thb New York Skpreet has heard of one American woman in Europe/ •* Who turned up her aristocratic nose at a pocket handkerchief costing 2,000 franca tie- i manding one which hud to be fhfufrvmd, and which waa not to cost less than 10,000.” , According to an estimate made,.'by' a Well-informed traveler, th« Chinese expend annually over $20,000,000 to iwm tpt • propitiate the sonla of the dead. About $80,000,000 are annually expended, in woiship of the F»o gods, and $100,000,600. in the worship of family ancestors. A tooth of 18, in New Bedford, who determined to marry against bin, father’s will, was recently complained of as a die- > obedient child, and the case continued sor 1 ■ sentence, so that he oonld be shut up, for want of bail till his father gets ready to take him on a whaling voyage. It was stated at the National Sunday School Convention that'the Sunday School Union has established 6,346 schOTta*. Iflfo which 398 503 children havobeea gatk*sfe<£ and 45,070 teachers in employed.-Niter anion has also aided 25,000 other schoqls, and over 400 churches have bean esfobliied as the results of its efforts. ’ •*:. vr mjDi. Wiboand, of Halle, Germany, after extensive investigation and collation of statistics, concludes that employment ’* on railway trains is ljotttore than usually dangerous or unhealthy. * Reports of thirty-eight companies showed that in 1868,1.072 per cent of the engineers, firemen and other employes on, the trains died, while of the employes not traveling the mortality was 0.981 per cent Thb report of Baptist progress in Great Britain for the last yehr shows that forty-nine churches have > been organized, making an aggregate of 2,447. The increase in -mombership has been 9,982, a larger accession than any since 1860, and bringing up the total to .251,506 member*. There age 267,396 scholars In the Sabbath Schools; and no doubt, over a million of the British population dependent on the Baptist* for religious instruction. At Rutland, Vt, which haa been scantily supplied with water for many years, the discovery has just been made the* in obstruction in a Joint in the main supply ■ reduced the calibre from three inches Is one and a half inches diameter. The obstruction consisted of lead, which was run into a Joint when the pipe was laid,.fifteen years ago. It cost them SB,OOO to make the discovery, besides the lose of many l building* by fire, which would have been saved but for the lack of water. FnoM an old advertisement published in the Georgia Journal, Milledgevilte, in 1819, it is found that the Hon, Wm. IL Seward, late Secretary of State, wa* at that time a Georgia schoolmaster He is therein announced as “ late from Union College, N. Y., from which instUu&m be comes highly recommended as a young gentleman of good moral character and . istinguished industry and literary acquirements.” He taught Latin, Greek, theoretical and practical mathematical logic, chemistry, geography, English grammas, and other brandies too numerous, to mention. » » _ ' Thb pews of the Centre Church, New Haven, Conn, 'ately rented for SIB,OOO. On a subsequent Sabbath the paste*, Rev, G L. Walker, took occasion to express, In decided terms, hte reg'tt at the result. The prices paid, he add, could not but be regarded as extravagant, and the frees amount received was larger than the exigencies of the church demanded. If the debt of the chur h Was alleged a* an excuse, the speaker thought thatiu a churcth embracing so much wealth, J®**? whose members were individually able 40 pay it without embarrassment, and who, unitedly, could expunge it ** without a twinge, the debt could not but be octeaidered as, in a measurer* disgrace. Thb Secretary of the Treaenry ls so much annoyed by the constant receipt of States aud who wish pey bonds, that he has found it necessary to request the publication of the fact that it t» not the potter of the Government to Issue bonds in soon cases. The only remedy is an appUcatiem to Congress, and that is not a 1W« ful remedy, as the Congressional Committee on Claims refoflsd to report the relief of several persons frbq had lout the test sessfam-Jhi baatTtur Chesses, it wm obliged lo»X an the bonds declared tojave been tort weft kltorwards preeented for payment. •■ ■ -