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witd to prescribe these conditions it wu not coercion or dcress to require compliance with them. If I have tie right to prescribe the terms upon which-I will convey my house to my neighbor it cannot be coei cion or duress . which he accepts then, and to give to this transaction the slightest color of coercion or duress it mast h m.i

to appear that the southern States I

and the people of the southern States loet no rights under th Constitution by going into the rebellion, end -that : immediately npoo their defeat they had a right to resume their high places in the Government they had jest failed to destroy. And - this argument, pushed to - its conclusions, would entitle them to representation at the very time they weie prosecuting the rebellion, for it cannot be nrged with any show of reason that defeat in battle and submission to superior power baa the effect to restore a constitutional right that has been lost. :..Tue rebel States were in nowise compelled to ratify the amendments. They could ratify them and be restored, or refuse to ratify them and remain in the condition in which they hd placed themselves. Their situation was entirely of their own makiacr.

They bad voluntarily, and against the prayers of all loyal men, with

drawn their senators and Repre

eentatives - from . Congress, and attempted to cut loose from the

Government; and if we bad left them for an indefinite period to lie in their bed as they had made it - they could not have justly complained. But, not asking indemnity for the : past, we said to them give us security : for the future and we will restore you to the full fraternity of the Republic. They gladly respoudei to the offer, and by overwhelming ' majorities in every State, and with the assurances of good faith, accented the terms that were prescribed; and having accepted the terms without protest Low absurd is it for other States to plead. that their' action was under duress and not binding upon them. M. j ," But it may be said i we offered the rebel States inducement to ratify the amendments. That may be true, but . inducement is not coercion or duress. ""Inducement is the action mainspring to human. Texas was induced to annexation by the immense - advantages to arise from union with this country,

but surer there was r.o coercion in the case. States, as well as! .rl .OTi.lwt.nl m BAtnaiimAO von i i - t

lUUtllUUaiB) DVUlCtllUCV 1 IVlUliB inducements to 'the .'performance of duty, to the administration of justice, to tho discharge of obligations imposed upon them by their own action. - s . But it is said the southern States should not have ratified the amend

ments until after they had been fully restored. In that case the in ducement to ratify would have been taken away and they would not have done so, especially if they had heeded the - advice of the northern Democracy. When it is necessary for a man to give security for bis good" behavior he is required to execute the bond before he is discharged from custody; he would hardly do it after ward, and it was not reasonable to suppose the southern Slates would offer guarantees after tbey had been fully restored to political power. .:-; -., The act of Congress passed 1818 contains the following provisions: 'j X'r'risC "Ste. 2. And be it farther enacted, That whenever official notice aball have been received at the Department of State that any

amendment which heretofore has been, or hereafter may be, proposed to tbe Constitution of the United States haa been adopted according to the provisions of the Constitu

tion, tt aball be tbe doty of tbe said secretary of State forthwith to cause aaid amend'

men! to be publiahed in tbe Said newspapers

authorized to promulgate the laws, with his certificate, apee fying the Statea by which the aame may have been adopted, and that the

same has become valid, to aU intents and pur

poses, as a part of the Constitution of United states." a'!'?

This constitutes the Secretary

of State a judicial officer to deter

mine and decide upon the official

evidence or tne ratification or an

amendment to tbe Constitution of

the United States, and if he finds it has been legally and ' properly ratified, to make '' proclamation

thereof in tbe manner prescribed.

From his decision there is no ap

peal, and his adjudication is final

That power had to be lodged some

where, and tt has been vested in

the Secretary of State. -'

The joint resolution of the Legislature of 'Indians, rati lying the Fifteenth Amendment, signed by , the presiding officers of the two houses, duly certified under the sesl oi the' State, in accordance with the law of his State, was filled with the Secretary; The evidence was incontrovertible; there was nothing to impeach it 'placed before him, and there could be nothing. An appropriation' bill passed by the Legislature of Indiana on tbe same day, with the same quorum, and by the same "votes, was afterward contested before the Su preme Court of the State,' and held

to be valid, the Court deciding the evidence of the'validity of the act to be. perfect, end ''that nothing could be received to impeach it for want of a quorum or by other irregoltrityy ;' 'As before stated,' the decision of the Secretary of State was made final by the law, and no appeal can be taken from It" to " a ' Democratic convention- brnto the accidental

majority of a subsequent Legislature. The question5 'as to whether a ' constitutional 'amendment has

been ratified;' Is essentially political, and must be determined by the

politieal ' department of the Gov

ernment. Like those - other ones

' tlons, whether a State has a repub

lican form of government, or wheth

er a State has -been - properly ad

mitted into the Union, -as in the case of West Virginia, it must be

determined by . Congress : or by

some officer appointed by a law of

Congress for 'that1 puipose: and

" when so determined, must be acquiesced in by the Courts and the

Government, for otherwise nothing ean ever be settled. The Vice President The Senator from Indiana will please suspend; the morning hour has expired and the unfinished business of yes terday is before the Senate. Mr. Pratt I move fiat my colleague be allowed to proceed and conclude bis remarks. j-The Vice-President-!. Is proposed that the unfinished, business be passed over until the Senator

from Indiana concludes his remarks. J Mr. Sumner I make no objection. The. unfinished business is the telegraph cable bill. . The Vice President It is ; but it will be passed over informally if there be no objection. The Chair hears no objection; and the Senator from Indiana will resume his remarks. Mr. Morton But suppose that the Secretary of State had been notified," as he was not, that objections were made to the sufficiency of the quorum in the legislature of Indiana when tho resolution ratifying the Fifteenth Amendment was passed, and had undertaken to do what the Supreme Court of Indiana said no Court had a right to do, go behind the enrolled bill, and behind the signatures of tbe presiding officers, and inquire into the sufficiency of tbe quorum, he would have found

the following state of facts : 'That the law of.tbe State provides for

the election of cno hundred mem hers to the House, and fifty mem

'. berg to the Senate, and that tue

Constitution of the State provides that two-thirds of each House

shall constitute a auorutn , to oo

business." The Democratic lead

ers assumed that, it required two-

. thtrds of all the members author

ized bv law to be elected to each

House to coos' i tut c the quorum

That was sixty-seven in tbe House

and vhirty-fonr in the Senate; and

in order to defeat the ratification

' of the Fifteenth- Amendment by

- breaking tho quorum forty mem

bers of the House and seventeen members of the Senate resigned

their scats, thus reducing the mem

bership in each body to less thn

two thirds of the members author

ized by law to be elected On the

5 other- hand, the Republicans as

,' somed that each House consisted

of its actual .' membership; that

when a member died or resigned

he was no longer to be counted

and that two thirds ol that mem

bership constituted a quorum.

The Constitution of the United

States provides that

"A majority of each House ahal

cccstitute a quorum to do busi

ness." " Two thirds of each House is required to constitute a quorum in

tbe State Legislature, but a majority in each House "will constitute

a quorum in Congress, and the first question under each Constitu

tion i, what is the House, of how many members does it take to constitute the ."House?" And when that is ascertained, then twothirds of that number will consti tote tbe quorum in the Legislature and a majority In Congress.' It has been solemnly decided that each House of Congress con

sists of its octual membership

and not of the whole number of members authorized bylaw to be elected; that when a Senator or Representative dies or resigns he is no longer to be counted in determining the quorum, and that the quorum consists of a majority of -he ' remaining L members, and in this way varies from day to day, as vacancies occur by death or resignation' or arc filled by election or appointment. This question was raised in Congress after the resignation of the Senators and Representatives from the Southern States at' the begin

ning Of the rebellion, and was decided in accordance with common sense and the necessity of preserving the Government. The resolution ratifying the -Fifteenth Amendment in the Indiana Legislature received fifty-six votes in the House and twenty eight in the Senate, the same being a clear majority of all the members authorized by law to be elected to either House. "" , .".""' ' So much of the Joint resolution I am considering as purports to rescind the ret of the Legislature of Indiso ratifying the Fifteenth Amendment is a harmless nullity,

and need not be noticed but for the spirit by which It is animated. .The better opinion is, that after the Legislature of a State has

: ratified an amendment to the Con

stitution of the United States, even before it ha3 been ratified by

enough other States to secure its

adoption, the act can not be rescin

ded on the ground that tne power

of a Legislature, as conferred by the Constitution of the United

States, having been once exercised on the particular amendment, has been exhausted. " But that the

Legislature can rescind its act of

raviuuauua . Biter iuv , kuiviiuuicui

has been ratified by three-fourths

of all the States and proclaimed

according to law, was never as

serted before, except by those who

'maintained the tight of secessioo.

South Carolina held In lSOO that

she could throw off her cbnstitu

tional obligations and secede from

the Union by simply repealing the ordinance by; which she ratified the Constitution ' 'in 1788; and .such seems to have been the 0 inion of those who' voted for this joint resolution1 Stripped of all pretenses tand beclouding - "whereases'," " it asserts the naked and1 abhorent .doctrine Of the fright of ieccssion. ' It is important that the, country ' should understand the issue tendered by ,thec Democratic party;', that it proposes to accept ' nothing that has been done in the way'ot reconstruction; that it repudiates all the

terms and guarantees required of

'the reberStates as the condition

. of their restoration.' " Not only has it declared, through its conventions

State and national, that the recon

struction acts of 1867 wero unconstitutional and void, but it now asserts that tho Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments are nullities, and will be by them disregarded when they come into power. Men of all parties, who seek re

pose and the final settlement of the great questions growing out o( the re bell ion, are not notified that the. programme of the Democratic party ii revolution and retrogression.

The nullification ol the Fifteenth

Amendment means the robber' from the colored people of their right to vote. The nullification of the Fourteenth Amendment means tbe reduction of the colored peo

ple of the Southern States to the condition of slaves to the law, it

means to leave the door open to

the assumption ol the rebel debt,

paying the rebels tor their slaves and for the repudiation of the na

tional debt. All these things are provided against in that amendment, and there can be no other

reason foa its nullification. Why

should any one desire to set it

aside unless it should be to accom plish the things which it forbids.

In stating the position of the

Democratic partp I rely upon the

expression of opinion in the In

diana resolutions and upon tho

vote of the Democratic members

in the other end of this Capitol, at

the last session, against a resolu

tion declaring the validity of the

Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amend

ments. On the 11th of July, 1870,

the other House, by a vote 138

yeas to 32 nays, every Democratic

member present voting hay, adopt

ed the following resolution, offered

by Mr. Ferrias, of New York ;

"Resolved. That the fourteenth and fifteen

th article of amendment to the Constitution

of tbe United Mates, having been culy rati

fied by the Legislatures ot tbrea fourths ol tbe several States, are valid to all intents and Mi' poses as part of the Constitution of

tbe United states, UDd as such inamng and

obligatory upon the Executive, the Congress

tue juoiciarr, ttiesereral states and terrtto

ries, and atl citizens of the United States."

in mm

SATURDAY. FEB. 25, 1871.

THE OTHER SIDE:

STATEMENT OF THE POLICE BOARD IN REPLY-TO MAYOR BENNETT.

aji exhibit; In view of orB ' extraordinary and mali

cious" attempts made at rations times to deceive the public in the matter of the Mayor's

troubles, in order to exhibit w its clearest possible light the justice of tlie "Telegram's"

remark, that Mr. Case "got no more than he

deserved," to the end that the real grounds

of the persistent, malignant persecution of

his honor may appear in all their odious deformity; and, in pursuance of our 'programme" laid down in our last issue, that some one must go on to the 'mourner'a bench' of public opinion, we have the disagreeable

and painful pleasure of laying before our readers an exhibit, which, for variety, richness,exhan.stiveness, clearness, and cogency, defies any parallel 'in the varied panorama of human existence,' unless it be the rich, rare, and racy 'dipest of tbe Indiana Laws' to our

hasty, imperfect and unsatisfactory notice of

which we invite the careful and profouud attention of all our philological readers. It is necessarily crowded out of this issue but wii! certainly appear in our next No.

All levity aside, this is not the first instance in which attempts to prove too much to prove innocence when there was nothing but guilt,

hare come to grief; and in all this matter, had

his honor observed even a modest reserve, in

not defying public sentiment, ha might hare

been sared the disgrace of this exposure; and

while we can most truly say we take no de

light in his personal humiliation, apart from a conscientious discharge of simple duty in

aiding to wipe out the disgrace on our city, by letting rottenness know and feel that there is a little ' balm in Gilead" still rem ainiiig among us. . We have further to say of him: "Shake not thy gory locks at mel Thou canst not say I did it!" May Heaven in mercy have pity on the per-

him who is guilty ot

TESTIMONY OF

'

RATTRAY, i

t-EN. GROSE AND J. F. HAN Ell

- ItKI.ATlNtJ TO- THE BEN-NETT-CASE 1M DROCil-lO

Concerning the Whisky

Ring-

As Mayor Bennett has had fre

quent use of 3'our paper, in which

he nas given his statements in the Bennett-Case arTruy, and in which

he has attempted to truduce by re.

nested insults our course an ti.em- I.

heard blows, aad Case says, "Oh, don't, Tom." Could not distinguish any more on account of the confusion. John F. HakerA Cfen. Grose,in conversation with a uicmber of the Police Board, just after the fight, made substantially

the following statement: I heard a trcruendous noise in the, adjoining-loom, jl was in -conversation with Mr. Dodd at the " time; listened and could hear Bcnnetrar'voice saying, "Yon G d d ta son of a Ji u, you have be4n following me for a night or two. 1 t.bot at you the other night, and

if you follow me azain I'll shoot

the 'oot of you.",. I then beard

or Bennett may say there was

cause for action, bnt if either one of the three gentlemen, Lacey, Leive or (. Bennett, will inform Chief Police McGraw where those masks now are, we will dismiss the case. We have been very careful in

consulting with the Chairman- of the Police Board ( perhaps our be

ing adtisory members, by chance, made us diffident) about ro mors.

since his denouncement , in ODen

council, that we acted on idle ru

mors. A nere nave bees many ru

mors given us, that on investigation, we could trace to no reliable

source. Still e think. - in our

humble judgment, we have enough that arc sound to refate his argu

ments and accusations against our

acts. There is an old Baying, "A

gentleman will not give an insult,

ana one wno is not a gentleman cannot." We will not apply , that

saying to his case, although many of his slurs and slings border on

insulting language. We reply to his statements to show ' that our

position is well taken, and when he is relieved of the responsibility of tbe sins of tbe "old wicked fel

lows," then he can see that though we thought different from him in

many things pertaining to the po

nce anairs, ye we were ngnt.

In the establishment of his 6th

fact, "The whole affair haa from

nothing almost, been magnified

and exaggerated into a great eensa

tion, by designing knaves, hypo

crites, aud aspiring embryo candi

dates for Mayor," did Mayor Ben-:

nett reflect on what he was saying

when he penned it as an established fact, or did be reelly mean it.

In cither case he should look at

the space in the Telegram, that

has been given him, in which to

make his vindication, when if the

public, without any ot his labored efforts to show his Btyle of administration, would undoubtedly have died a much easier death, than to have it encumbered with lengthy statements, and villifications of the members of the Police Board, when the fact is that very few tho't either he or his vindications required much exaggeration from either class mentioned. It would bo natural to suppose that any person with tbe forethought that exaggerated opinions have credited Mayor Bennett of possessing, after ascertaining that tbe Council did not desire a rehash of his private troubles, would seek so much notoiiaty and fame. None but himself has sought publicity, and had

he been content to confine himself

to his own vind'calion, and not attack the Police Board in his speeches and statements, he would have saved some notoriety. . ' -.,1

He also has tried to shift the responsibility of-policemen getting drunk while on raids, to the action ot the Board, contrary to his wish es. We will admit that we opposed that plan of raids to get indictments, but did he offer any other ? was it his notion to convict liquor license violators only on the affidavits of citizens, roughs and bummers ? Was it any worse for our police to bring indictments that would stick, than to depend on a class of persons that the Mayor

says are low drunken loafers liable to be run off or bought up ? . Wan it absolutely necessary , for four or five men to get thoroughly drnnk ? that would keep them as one expressed himself, "Drunk for three days and then find only 9 or. 10 in dictmcnts, and those State cases' and where they drank 4 and 5 times to get only one indictment, fined 5 Was it necessary to get out

on a big drunk, th6n, for fear of

censure? call it a raid by order

j of the Board, Bennett' dissenting ?

Who were the parties fined? were

they prominent whisky ring men,

or was tne indictment ana line to

whip them into the ring ? (By or

er of the Board.; Did Mayor

Bennett, when be had': control of

the Police force, with two acciden

tal advisory members, ever suggest anj other plan, than that each and every man should be a special detective ? Has a majoiity of .his

iquor cases been State or City

cases t it state cases, was in or the purpose of avoiding the defend

ant s giving evidence, or were too fee3. in State cases better applied

than in Citv cases, his salary as

City Attorney being the - same

whether the case goes on the State.

or City docket.

In re!using to have anything to

do with the present police force, is

be fulfilling his duties as i Mayor or

are the present members "selected with an eye sinjle to their peculiar fitness," not as pliable as of old ?

iiiougu Diayor uenneis uiu not, have much to say in selecting the present force, could he not quietly have submitted to the action of -a

majority of the Board, as has been

done by members before, when in

the minority ?

H is comparisons of arrests and

convictions are all . very well on paper, but will the circumstances

warraut him in continuing the same

ratio lor two years to come ? If e6;

what number of policemen (would

it require, with such an increase of business, as would be by the assistance of saloon keepers with no li

cense ! It is only a few years since

the people -of Richmond tho t

it necessary to 'pass--an ordinance

on the subject of prostitution. Du

ring whose administration did the

Flats acquire their reputation

certainly in i can not oe cuargea

to Sailor, Finley or Young. Did

theBonrd take unwarrantable juris

diction in making changes in the

noi

blows, with the oft-repeated words,

w me,

bors of the Police Board, we

ask.-

"I'll learn you to folio

terspersecl with many oaths and

f man's begging- for mercy.

in-

a

Then

in justice tooursclv.s End the puJ--Benhettwent out, and soon return-

jured soul of - the deep damnation!

1 realy upon tnese further, reas

ons: j

, That the adoDtion of the amend

ment. was strongly opposed by

the Democratic party in Congres

and out of it; that the Democratic party everywhere denied the power of Congress to require the late

rebel States to ratify the amendments ; as , a condition to their restoration; that no Democratic convention, Legislature or leading statesman, so far as I know, has

accented or admitted the validity

of the amendments. And I may refer to the additional fact that the State of Kentucky to-da'. nullifies an important, provision of the fourteenth amendment, and also

of the "cinl rights . bill,", by

refusing to colored , people , the right to testify in her courts in any case, civil or criminal, . to which a white persou is a party.. A - white man may enter a colored congregation and shoot the minister in the pulpit, and if there are no white witnesses he caanot be prosecuted. No wonder that the press is teeming with crimes committed upon the colored people of that State.

And the supreme court of Californ

ia, in a recent decision, refusing to the Chinese the . right to testify in cases to which white persons are parties, while not directly, denying

the authority of the fourteenth araendtLent, asserts the existence of State rights, which would subvert it utterly. , And the, Governor of that State, in a message to the Legislature, declared that the fifteenth amendment was not within

the scope of the power of amendment contained in the Constitution of the United States. Mr. Casseuly. Will the Senator allow me ( .- j. Mr. Morton. I shall be through io a moment, and then I will anscwer any questions..,,. ; Mr. Cassebly. , I rise merely

to a correction as to a question cf

fact. ... , -.

Mr, Morton. Very .well. Mr. Casskrly. The Senator

from Indiana probably is not aware

that that message of the Governor ofCal.fornia was delivered while

the rititication of the, amendment

was still pending. ;r :'..

Mr. Morton. I am aware that

that message was in sending the amendment in to the Legislature;

but that message denied the power

of Congress to propose an amend

ment of that kind, and denied the

possibility of its becoming a part

of the Constitution of the United

States, thouch ratiued by ever

so many States. And the Legisla

tureof Uienon at its late session

formally declared the same amendment to be a nullity. and. not bind in2 upon the people of that State,

The issue thus presented is of

the gravest possible character; and

involves the peace and perhaps the very 'existence of,: the Union.

Amendments so vital to the safety

of .the nation and : the liberiy and happiness of nearly - five, millions

of people, adopted under circum

stances so solemn and . so, strange

in tbe world's history,, cannot be

nullified but by a struggle which will shake our Government to its

foundations. ') 1'

When we look at the reign of

violence in the South; the bitter and bloody persecution of men for opinion's sake; and at the- ominous cloud of nullification which makes the political . horizon black, , who

will dare to say that the mission

of the Republican .party has been

performed. t.?.' ;c '

v Little children are told at school that if they let their desks get dirty it1 is a sure sign that taeir pa ,

rents keep, a 'dirty uQU.se. It is a fact s that many of 3 the. dolls, with

clean clothes, and nice curls, and

so on, come from- homes where parents are too lazy to do anything else but dress a child.8 Don't ; tell

a thoughtless child that its ways

are in imitation of a parent if you

would have it remember yotf with

kindness and pleasure in after

years.

"In thia as in our previous conclusions, we are guided folely by the testimony," Ac, Ac. Richmond Telegram on the new light. "Waiting for facts. eh? In this view tbe editor is 'KerectP We can hardly resist the conviction that the editor had in view the following pathetic sentiments of another distinguished gentleman, and that he will cast some lingering, painful reminiscences en tbe past, as be calls to memory his admiring intimacy with the Mayor: .

lie, that we may be permitted to nive the complete version ot the

affair as given us by disinterested gentlemen; also to show , that we have not taken any undue advantage because of our constituting the majority ot said Board. As citizens, membes of the

Common Council and members; of the Police Boaid, we, together with others, were perfectly willing that the whole matter should be dropped, and no more said on the sub-4 ject, except where justice required action, but it is plainly seen that it is his object to agitate until somebody will stoop to quarrel with

him This we have not and do cot propose to do. His making it a. personal itsult to the members ol the Polire Board required some aa: swer as ' publicly as hasp been his statement through your paper, and

bis speeches at the meetings of the

Common lonncn. w c nave refrained from replying on all occa sions hitherto, and would do so still, were it not that honest per sons might possibly be misled by his oft repeated misrepresentations, and made to believe that his story

was true, because it was not refuted. . In almost every speech or statement that has emanated from the

Mayor of late will be found some Allusion to the acts of the Police

"Circumstances beyond my individual control, have lor a considerable length of lime, effected a severance ot that intimacy, which, in the opportunity afforded me by the pressure cf my "editorial dnties" of contemplating the scenes and events of the past, tinged with the prismatic hues of memory, has afforded me and shall ever continoe to afford me gratifying emotions of no ordinary character"! Yours Truly, W. Maoawbsb."'

On Wednesday last the Republican members of the Legislature, placed their resignations in the hands of Governor Baker. They being in the minority, were -'compelled to submit to novel, injust, tyrannical and unprecedented rulings from the Speaker, made for the sole and on'y purpose of furthering party schemes and measures.". Before resigning the Republican member had drafted an. address, giving reasons (or action, which is published in yesterday's Journal, signed by thirty-four members who vacated their seats. We ''shall publish the Address next week ' 1

designed him

BUFFOONERY. The contest for the seat in Con

gress, as Representative of the Fourth District, commenced by

Dave Gooding, is one of the broad-.

est farces ever enacted before an intelligent community. The' de

positions taken by Gooding, are

. irrelevant ' to the matter at istue.

and the, bombastic solemnity with

which he conducts his investija

tions would make his fortune could he bncg such talents to his aid in

the portrayal of the legitimate drama.

Gooding has certainly mistaken

his calling natu

for a first-class buffoon

As to legitimate evidence, Judge

Wilson has thus far greatly strengthened his cause by the facts

that the investigations have bro't

forth. In Washington township,

this count', and in several pre

cincts mostly located' in Franklin

county, it has been proven that

illegal boards were organized and

the evidence thus solicited shows that Judge Wilson is entitled to four hundred more votes then have

been assigned to him by the offi

cial count. " Every day the investigation furnishea additional proof that Judge Wilson is the nndoubt ed choice of 1 the people, of. the Fourth District. Gooding knew from the start that be had no case, but economical and stingy as he ' ha9 been in conducting the campaign, he could not help spending some money. This be wants Congress to 'refund with intere6t.Rushvi.lle Republican! ,. . : ? Erbatcx. In last week's issue, ia the salt article, please read 1310 instead of 1839, 4n the following sentence: "From 1821 to 1839, inclusive, the price of. that salt averaged 51) cents per bushol.'' .:; .. '; . a : . ...

MARRIED, In this city, Jan29, by Rev. J.V. R. Miller,' John C. Morgan and Mary G.Roosa. - t .. ' ".; 7 .

Feb. 15, 1871, at the M. E. Chnroh, in Winchester, Ind., by the Rev, W".; T. Walker, Robert S.Fisher, Esq.. of Union City, Ind., and Misa Rosalie A. Cotton., daughter of Jas. S. Cottom, Esq., of the former place.-. - " Accompanying the above announcement, we were remembored by a liberal supply ot the good thinga .always provided on similar occ-sions. We congratulate onr young

friends on ..their, union, and hope that nnal-t

loyed prosperity may bej their hippy lot thro out a long life of contined bliss. j .t '...-On Wediesiay iastFeb.22d, by - Jas. M. Pot, Esq.,' at the residence of the bride's parents,' Mr. John" W.'Foulke, and Mis Abbie Il.Wilkins. daughter of Stacey U. Wilkins, Esq., all of thia citj. .- j,., ;.njl!. ar Again were' wromembered by pur young friends. If good wishes from "a poor, "half- starved editor," will add to their happi

ness anf prosperity, they have thenv in : Gospel measure" ."heaped tip, pressed down and

running OverT

Board. Perhaps not so much to

the acts themselves, but the man

ner of performing them contrary

o his notion of. affairs in police

business. . c '

That the Board has sanctioned

hit ways heretofore is evident

from the Court record he exhibits,

without giving any of the causes.

The time had come when some

action wa3 necessary, or the Board ! might be licensed 'of sanctioning j

the increase of violations. We

did set, and immediately did we

receive from him a rebuke for our

misdoings, in the oft repeated saying, "You fellows' are -always-' list ening to all the idle rumors on the

streets I never hear them. We

can only think now, after reading

so many of his statements and cards, that had the Board taken some action sooner, on the rumors, though idle and frivolous, he would

now be spared the vexatious troub

le of statements, bis mind possibly relieved from the anxious care of

a Police force. No Headquarters would have been suitable in which to practice his pugilistic science (or his personal satisfaction. In his statement of the 10th of February he says, he has asked and been refused an investigation ' into his fight. This was probably for two reasons. 1st, The Council having heard a statement from him early, and seen statements in the

papers, they probably thought the statement too small and low to dis turb in public 2d, No charges had been preferred against him, as required by - an ordinance lately passed. Consequently, , nothing could be done, and hence Council submitted quietly to be bored with a reproduction of the statement, as ' he . construed . it, and wished to color it.. He desired publicity, and has it,, though Council thought it too low to meddle with, and was

norfpptlv willinor tn If t. it end with i

t J o - ( street conUctions. He took pride in bis rt cord, as to him it showed ! manhood in self-defence. .The pari ticipation of the Police Board was only that which " duty ; demanded, t

We made ' no 'long -speeches , or : statements to justify-, our course;

but acted with decision, except on the night after the fight. The Mayor was called to meet ns, with full determination on our part.of removing the Chief of Police,' for' allowing such conduct in his office and in,bis presenne but by the ar gumeuts-ot the Mayor, n which htclaimed that , tie . outranked th Chief, and no matter what he had done, the Chief could rot interfere

Witn nor aisooey nis oroers w, thought best to investigate further; and be sure we were 4right, . Sc that there could . be n.o possibility -of .accusing us' of acting hastily;" nor of going contrary' to" justice" Yet no intimation was -given , by u that we should take no action til'

tte 2Qth of December, as was sta

ted by Mayor Bennett in his speech

before the Council. We had nc

erstandtng at all that we trert

to withhold action till he returned

from Washington, and Jm spread-:.

ing it on the police, record , alter ht ;

eturned, does not by any means''

prove that there was such an agieement in fact.-:t ---nec:r.-o. t

The 1st thing to be done toward -

a tuorougu investigation was to

get the statements of.'parUea whe '

IT.' r

cd with another man. lliey soon

got to. quarreling 'again; the .man

asking for fair play. - I soon heard

blows again, and a heavy fall; heard the man calling for help, in

a voice indicating choking.

STATEMSNT OF W. W. RATTRAY IK FULL

fCONCERKlNG TUB BENNETT -CASK s "n " " . AFFRAY. .

Was sitting in the office of the

.hief of Police, Dec. 15th, ia conversation with M. M. Lacey. Mayor Bennett came in with a man who he said he bad arrested. He asked Lacey if he knew him. Answered

no. Bennett then began accusing

him of following him the night be

lore. A war ot woras tuen ensued;' finally, Bennett became indig

nant, and commenced kickin? and

knocking him in a very rough man

ner, without his offencg any re

sistance.; After Bennett had got

through hitting and kicking him, - which was by no means playful,

but used his muscle pretty well

he then told Lacey to look aficj

him while he went alter Uubert, and while Bennett was gone after Gilbert, Case began to get' angry,

and cried, and said to Lacej', he

could have no show, as they bad

, him at a disadvantage; but would

eire sou to nave a iair suow at

Bennett. Lacey then said, 4,You shall have a fair show." Case then

took off ..his overcoat, and gave La

cev his Docket-book. Then after

some talk between Lacey and Case,

Lacey gave him back his pocketbook; and told him to sit down and

shut up. Then Bennett returned

with Gilbert, who began to talk to Case about following his wife,

which Case denied, and asked par

don for any 6uch supposed thing

Case then arose and said to Ben

nett, "If it was not for the differ

ence between us, I would thrash

you." Bennett then laid his revolver on the table. Bennett says, "May be my official position is what you meant. - 'I will "waive that." Bennett then laid off his , his hat and coat, aa did Case his coat, and before I could fairly' realize the situation, they were clinched and the light was out, with the table lamp between them. I jumped up and caught hold of the gutta percha tube to prevent either of .them falling upon it, or using it as a weapon, but could not get it loose; tried to take off the chandelier, but could not; I held it all the time they were at it.-After a bit, Gilbert says, "We'd betterhave alight." I thought so too, as there was none except the light from the street lamps. When the light .was struck the fighting stopped, and Lacey got a basin of water to wash ihe blood off. The whole trouble seemed to be about

Case following Bennett tbe - night

' before. The fight proper didn't come off until after Gilbert came in; before that Bennett kicked and Struck him a good many times, and

Case made no resistance. Bennett did not punch him with his pistol, as Lacey had laid it away in the drawer. Bennett did not know where it was until after Lacey went away wiih Case. I was holding the lamp tube all the time. No one

'kicked him. ! Wm. W. Battrat.

By : the foregoing statements it will be seen that Mayor Bennett does not dilate very much on the statements of Gen. Grose nor Mr. Haner, and gives ouly a portion of that of Mr. Rattray. ", Case is gone , and all is ia security. o ' The Board is1 accused by the Mayor of acting on idle and frivolous , rumors. - While we thought the non-interference of M. M.s Lacey, was sufficient cause for dissmissal, we will give one of those

a t t.. r-. . . . -i . . rt rfl

i.iUk', - mo Ticnrnj oi hi cans,

on Saturfoyi Jaa-.lJamesBrown, oT ooe-

sumptioo; lAlao, on Saturday, Feb. 11, Alex,

Brown, .of sama disease, James and- Alex

ander- were brothers: both good men and

highly, respected.,.; ,;.,?. tw . (i y, .. .-? ' ,&

v.. Re. W, Miller, former patter of Cent tral M. E. Church. wHIoccudv 4U nuloit on

to-morrow, and will preach the funeral of

the late Abijab Addington.

Het and frivolous rumors about

wh;ch so much has been said.

Soon after the unpleasantness at Centreville, between a portion of

. the nolice force, and citizens of

Centreville, about some billiards,

. XJ-M. Lacey expressed a desire to raid the whisky, saloons, as was

thought at the time, to redeem him-

', f (If from the stigma of the Cen

tuvill trout le. Ho readily obtained the consent of the Board to j. any effort be could. or would make to bring' to justice those who were

operating irr defiance of any law

To make. the raid a success, it

would be necessary that Mr. Lacey ' should go - to Cincinnati and pur

. chase the necessary disguises. He

went to Cincinnati; the goods came

with a U. U. U. for 90, not in Jl

M.Xacey's name, nor T. W. Ben

nett's, but Chas. Leive's, President

of the Whisky Ring, and keeper of

two saloons. . -The bill, with some additions

n.lhorf Jtw1 P.Mt.i-'?..,! nU a .. . ,

. " -..m.v.-., uu "uu(u,-, . xvknn than, itmi tiil nr . n

3D or ...i - vy vue.r verS,on o-... 8ented Council, it was presence Affair. !t That evening hia stale- . . "tK- :Mm. f .ni.Sr Pli.

I . j - - - : ,ft U tUV WMBW V va af

i m T.TO B uwn, peiere any :i . tne .,,., having been

I,eE.w" n.erw e.W .n.. "r-'vehaheed , from: 'Chaa.', Leiver - So

J-T ,? . !!S , .f'j ; DUr ' numk- for. an idle jumor. - f Ihi,

stATESAtiiT OiPMn BAKlR.: .vrtf irT frfvolfina. we will not ask: for

would act and not make a farce of it any more. That would show life be better than the previous masterly inactivity, or waiting for 'citizens to enter: complaints.. Mayor Bennett was elected to

the ofnee or Mayor, and by Council, City Attorney, by virtue of his office, a member of the Board of Police ; during hie leisure evenings, self-constituted private po--JVHmn-.To allay any suspicion he mry liave, we will say that neithRone bf . ns will be a candidate for Msyor in the spring, but will supiPort the .Bepttbltcan nominee with our voice and vote. . ,M i.- E D PAtMna: . a ; .. j " " Abthub A. Corub. . t -..-r-a. ..... .

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