Richmond Palladium (Weekly), Volume 43, Number 48, 7 February 1874 — Page 2

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The Journal and Sentinel, both "put their foot down," and declare that those who left their 'cases, can never get back to their former places, and clinch the declaration by fivering that "this is the word with the bark on."

1 ort Wayne and Northern Ind. are taking action to secure United

States Courts at Fort Wayne. At a large meeting held there on the 59th Jan., delegates, consisting of the Hon. Jesse L. Williams, F. P. Randal, Hon. O. Bird, W. H. With ers, and R. S. : Roberts on, were chosen to present the importance of the measure to Congress. " ' Among the Members of " the House, the Journal thus mentions the able and efficient Representative from this district: 'Hon. Jere. M. Wilson, Republi can, of the Fourth district, has had in some respects, an exceptionally successful career thus - far, in Congress. Although just . beginning his second term he ' has already come to be regarded both in the House and throughout the country as one of its ablest members. r He occupies the second place on the Judiciary Committee and in various ways ha3 been recognized as a man of marked ability and power. The success which has achieved is of a strictly legitimate character and due entirely to his sterling qualities, and unquestioned ability. Mr.

Wilson is one 01 toe best men in

the House." ,

ten ftrlke.!

The "strike" at; Indianapolis has come to an end-so far as the proprietors of the different papers are concerned. The-Journal of the 4th, thus sums up the "onpleasantncss:" "If you have ever attempted to make bricks without straw, or anything of that sort, you can understand our embarrassment for the last few days. The worst is past, however, and we haYe the pleasure" 'this morning of presenting the Journal to its patrons in the usual size. We have obtained a sufficient number of printers from different parts of the country to do our work, and expect still more to arrive, until we shall be able to secure a full force of sober, industrious and

competent men. : The strike will cost us considerable in the way of interruption to business, but the loss will be merely temporary, while in the end we shall nave the satisfaction of knowing that the Journal office is controlled by its owners, and not by its employees. We shall never again consent to be placed in a position where the action of any organization can drive us to the wall, Hereafter the affairs of the Journal Company will be controlled by its Board of Directors and by nobody else." 1 The Sentinel of the ; same date, speaks for itself, th ugly: .. V , : "The Sentinel can say that it will in the future tolerate no interference of any kind in the management of its internal affairs. Those who draw the pay of this establishment must perform the duties as prescribed by its

managers, without regard to the whimsical enactment of anv organization.

Co-operation, the , Sentinel recognizes

at a great step in advance in the ineth

ous oi modern economy, but . the in

terference theory of union is simply an intensification of the feudal ter

rors, wielded by the lords of the soil

over their tenantry in the darker days

ot human enslavement. : u .

There's nothing like looking over the old laws aud dragging from the

dusty pigeonholes the records now and then. In the work of revising the

laws it has been discovered that there is an old act, passed in 1836, and

which has never been repealed, providing that the departments shall be kept open on an average nine hours a

day for the transaction of business

The hours now are from 9 to 3, or six

hours. It is thought that by putting

this old law in operation the clerical force can be reduced one-third, at a saving of near $2,000,000 annually. We hope that moTe such laws will be discovered, and that when found Congress will see to it that they . are , enforced. It is time to abolish all sinecures and compel every man to render,

an equivalent for the money he draws

from the Treasury. , n v ;-. fct

I

Xonilnntlna EImUni.

Heretofore our State Conventions have usually taken place qn the 224 ; of February and our County Conven-; tions, for the purpose of appointing delegates thereto, and making arrange- j mcnts for holding nominating elections, &c, were held just prior to the time for holding the State Conven- i tions. and, because of the Township J election being held the first Monday , in April, that time was uniformly se- j lected as most convenient for candi-'. dates. Township elections are now"

County -and Township offices are all throwu together for election. This arrangement makes it convenient to hold the nominating election at any

time prior to the general election, giving the different aspirants, of course, time sufficient to visit their. friendR throughout the county. ' The general election takes place, now, on the second Tuesday in ' October,' (13th.) The State Republican Con-, vention having been called to meet at Indianapolis on the 17th day of June next, there appears to be rio urgent necessity for holding our Cotuity Republican Convention until about the 13th of June, when-delegates can be appointed to the State Convention, Township Committee selected and a time set apart to hold the nominating election. This arrangement would give those seeking the Republican nomination about Bevea weeks to elec tioneerin. - As o:ir County Central Committee

has called a meeting of its members on Saturday, 14th inst., it would be well for Republicans to express their views at oucecon this matter, in order that the committee may act advisedly and in conformity with the wishes of the majority. 1 " The only objection te the postponement we nave heard is that it would somewhat discommode candidates who

have already announced and gone actively to work in the nominating canvass. It is proper that this should be considered, but o close inspection it may not prove very formidable. It is every candidate's privilege to work as long and hard as he pleases before the nomination, at all events, j ; . t We copy the above from last Friday's Telegram, and fully endorse it--trustiug that the Central Committee at its meeting on Saturday next, will make arrangements to call a County Convention at the time designated above (Juuo 13th,) to meet, say at Cambridgo City, at that time to appoint delegates to the State Conven-

thion, and make all arrangements to i

hold the nominating e;eetiou, at the time Republicans -at, that Convention may theu designate. .1 ;. : We do not believe that any candidate for the nomination can possibly be discommoded by this arrangement for every ; one who feels like serving his country in an official capacity, can circulate his caratfmediately, announce his patriotic1 aeBire, and electioneer, day and jijght,"instaht'in season and out of season,' from this

time up to the day,;6elected; for nomit

nating. Thus time sufficient can be taken, by , all aspirants, and the Republican voters can hav ;ime to

th soundest TlmBMU for ai

ticket in the county-iand they will

be sure to do it THIS TIM, and, in this matter, we caV&SBure the candidates' for nomination, that! 1 the ' very best men our party1 contains will be selected "no others need apply" for a place thereon with the hope of getting it, sure and certaiu !

The delegation in Congress, both in the Senate and House from our State,

is spoken of in just terms of commendation, by the Indianapolis Journal of Thursday last,. Our Senators are

thus mentioned: . . ,

."In a body -of seventy-four members and containing some men of pre-eminent ability, Senators Morton and Pratt stand among the first. ' Indeed,

lor some time past the general senti

ment of the country has accorded to

Senator Morton the leadership of the

Senate, and the preponderance of

opinion among those most competent to judge is that he is the greatest man in that body, , By this we do not mean

; the most learned or the most cultiva

ted, for there are several who far sur

pass him in literary accomplishments

but we mean in practical sagacity, an

titude for affairs,, force ot intellect,

and knowledge of practical statesman

shin. Senator Pratt has seek much

less of publie life and events have not , brought him . as prominently before

' the nation, but he is conceded to be one of the best lawyers , and clearest thinkers in the Senate! From the beginning of his term he has steadily grown in the-esteem of his fellowSenators, and is now regarded as one of the soundest and safest men in the Senate. It should be added that in point of personal character both of ' our Senators stand among the first, no breath of suspicion having ever con- ' nected either of their names with any act of legislative jobbery or fraud."

Iid

to the

Woman Point th war

inion victories t The public from time to .time have heard something about a claim before Congress in behalf of a woman who is said to have acted the part of a strategist on the Union side at an important stage of the war a Joauof Arc, who did not actually lead armies to triumph in person, but who pointed out the route they were to take and

: did take. ' The case is that of Miss

' Carroll, the granddaughter of Charles

' CarToll. of Carollton, whose name thus

'stands on the " Declaration of Independence. Though living in the midst

1 of . the secessionists ot Maryland, Miss Carroll preserved the patriotic spirit

of her ancestry and remained true to ; the Union, for Which she labored and

wrote. Thus 'attracting the attention of the Government by her ability, she

; was commissioned by the WarDepart-

; ment, in' the fall of 186Tj to make a ! tour of Illinois,' Missouri,1 Kentucky ' and Tennessee, ostensibly as a corres

pondent, but for the real purpose of

gathering information needed by the ; Department. It was at a time of gen

eral depression among" union men, when the immense difficulties of over

coming the rebellion, had been taught

bv the disastrous events on the 1'oto

mac. 'About the middle" of October1

she discovered in the eminently woman-like way through the wife of a

pilot, that preparations we're on foot for a grand expedition down the Mississippi. '' ' "' ' ' :

'After acquainting herself as thor

oughly with the subject as she could, she wrote to the War Department.

under date of November 30, 1861, that

the contemplated plan was a mistaken

one, and that, for various good reasons which she gave, the campaign ought to be transferred -to " the Tennessee river, "the true key to the Southwest," a3 she calls it. In the ensuing spring she renewed the advice and proposed the capture of Vicksburg, writing two letters on the matter alLof which are on record. Her plan was adopted, with what consequences the world knows. 1 Was it by her agency? 1 One fact is said to be indisputable, that the records of the War : Department show that her letters contained the first suggestion of such a plan; and another is, that nb military man has yet contradicted her claim. Cob Thomas A: Scott, the railway man, who was at .the time Assistant Secretary of War. reit

erates that Miss Carroll was the first

to indicate the movement Hon.'Benj

F Wade, in the last hours of hi9 public service,- wrote to her that, from his position as Chairman of the Committee on the Conduct of the War, he had

full "opportunity to know how the country had profited by her labors, SDecifvine.the suggestion of that expe

dition., Other' Tetters testify that

President Lincoln and Secretary Stan

ton expressed great gratitude for and appreciation of., her Union services. Her petition is for $500 to. reinburse

her for the publication of her writings.

it Was reported upon by a committee

in 1870. but Congress adjourned be

fore1 i it could be aeted-aponby the

Senate, It is certainly a case worthy of pareful examination, and if that should result in favor of giving the money1 to 'Miss Carroll, who is now old and in reduced circumstances, every friemVofs the Union would be

gratified, Wpman s Journal. ?

The Woman's TtmpenaM Crmwade.

Tho.crusade against the, liquor sel- 1

ers lit many places in unio, nas ue-

veloped into large proportions, and in some places in this "Statin" It Beems to have started -at, the suggestion of

Dr. Dio Lewis, who for a few years has been a resident of Boston, but

bnncrly of the West. He writes

from Boston that he intends coming tS Southern Ohio, in "a few days, to observe the progress of the movement, and to contribute a mite if he has an

opjortunity. Both -Washington and Hillsboro, Ohio, claims the honor of

the first successful movement. In a

number of places they have succeeded,

by -.singing, prayer, and earnest en

treaty, in inducing the proprietors to close their saloons, and abandon the

business." . irr :-,c: V'J :

At Shelbyvillo, in this State, the

ladies have inaugurated the move

ment, and have gone to work in earn

est. They have organized, and have

been visiting daily one or more of the liquor houses. JTba first skirmishers wei e about a dozen elderly arid mid-

dlc-ased ladies who visited a few of

the shops,? In several cases they were refused admittance; in some they were met defiantly, and with insulting lan

guage ; some ; exhibited utter . con

tempt. , After this, fruitless sortie . a few days of quiet succeeded.? In the

mean time discussions and prepara

tions were going on. After becoming

better organized, led by the President

of the league, the wife of. the Presi

dent of the First National . Bank of

that place, about, fifty ladies sallied

forth to meet the enemy in his strongr holds. The first one visited, was one

that before : had met them defiantly, but now received them with smiles,

and invited them in. They, entered,'

eang, and knelt in lervent prayer. Some conversed with the proprietor, but could not prevail with him to eonsent to abandon his huisiness. But they had entered, sang and prayed in a whisky saloon ; had not Buffered, and they took courage.1 The next day they visited two other saloons, were not admitted, and held their meetings on the sidewalk.. ,, The next day they visited Capt. Maze. They were adhutted and found there about a dozen men a ; motley crew some of them pitiable wrecks. Such a sight, the eyes of these women had never before inet. . Hymns were sung, and prayers offered, the women solemnly kneeling during these supplications. During these exercises the women ; pleaded earnestly with the. ; proprietor, and

with each man present. The hearts

of all were melted to tears. . Mrs. Kl liott obtained the promise from the

proprietor ; it was ; conditional, but

the ice was broken. She -stepped upon a chair and announced the words of Capt. Maze. , There were suppressed exclamations of joy- and tears of

thankfulness. While these incidents were occurring, a large crowd of citi

zens collected without, but there was

no confusion or disturbance. -

After this their numbers were very

much enlarged about seventy-five of the "bravest and the best" being in the line of March. , On their second visit to Capt. Maze, he surrendered

He goes,; into other business, and the ladies ; have converted what was his rum-shop into the headquarters of the crusaders. , A spirit of consternation

seems to have taken possession of the liquor sellers. Two druggists pf five, have- pledged themselves not to sell

any more ;liquor, except on a physi

A emoertle nodare.; In certain sections of the eounfry where the Patrons of Husbandry hold the balance of power there seems to be a growing tendency to convert the order into one of a political character. The temptation to form a new party which shall represent a leading interest, and unite a powerful class against smaller and weaker ones, is both strong and natural, and to resist it demands the highest order of patriotism. Wc have large sympathy for the farmer' movement, and believe that by pr.jcr management it can greatly benefit thi interest which it was formed to protect. Its founders saw the dangers which the introduction of politics would cause, and wisely excluded its

presence from the order. We are glad

to know that the prevailing sentiment

ot the granges is against the movement now on foot by certain designing men to use the order for political purposes. Its best . friends see in this movement the defeat of its principal objects, and the early dissolution of the order itself. Whatever tends to weaken the Republican party as a na-

: tional power, takes from it the ability . i . xi - i.:-u a.. .

to DTing aooui mc reiuriiis wmcii me farmers of the West stand in need of. To break away from that party, and form another on purely class grounds, may for a time insure local advantages, but these will be purchased at the expense of greater advantages, which must of necessity be national in their

character. Cheaper transportation to the sea-board, and to the markets of Hie East is one of the necessities of

the hour. It affects all sections of the ' country, and to bring it about requires

the united efforts of the representatives of all branches of industry. The Republican party is fully alive to the

: importance ot orening new outlets for

Western production, and has already

taken steps to secure them at an early

dav. lo cripple the party by with

drawing from it enough strength to

throw the election into the hands of

the Democracy would be to imperil the best interests of the West. Wc

cannot but regard tlm movement to

wards th.6 formation of a third party ; as nothing more nor less than a Dem

ocratic dodge, having for its object the

disruption ot the llepublican party by

a division in its ranks, livery Ue publican fanner in the West should be on

his guard against the seductive influ

ences of those politicians who assure

them that nothing but a farmers' ticket

can secure the relief they demand. If

the farmers hold the balance of power

in any State, they have it within their

power to elect men who shall represent their interests. This can be done

through the Republican party without

in the least weakening its power. c

sincerely hope that the Republican

farmers everywhere will Irown down

all attempts to nominate a class ticket.

It will lead to organization of other interests against them, and defeat the

project now on foot for their relief.

If thev want to be felt in politics let

them be more active in the ranks of the party, and seek the nomination of

men who will truly represent them in

the State and national councils. Vin-

cennes Times

Objects of the Patrons. ; From a recent article in the Des Moines Register, from the pen of the Agricultural Editor, Hon. C. F. Clarkson, we make the following extracts, bearing upon the purposes of the order of Patrons of Husbandry. We commend them to the careful perusal of its members. There is great ignorance on these points, and little appreciation of the possibilities of the order, even among many of its "prominent men." "But the Patrons of Husbandry is not a political organization, and those who have clandestinely sought a place in it, to convert it into a political machine are not true Patrons, and the order cannot and should not be held responsible for their acts. The true Grangers have opposed this illegitimate and unwise use of their organiza

tion, and arc wounded and discour

aged at the base use that is made of

so noble an institution. 1 he order was intended to awaken a higher life among farmers; to ennoble labor and establish a fraternity of feeling; for mutual instruction, in the rules and

Tb First Anti-Slavery MoveineMt.

John O. Whlltler, im the Atlantic. ; ' Our work as a'convention was

now done. President Green arose

to make the concluding address.

The circumstances under which it ii 1 1 i 1 i I

was utterea may nave lent it an

impressi veness not its own; but ait

now recall it. it seems to me the

most poweful and eloquent speech

to which I have ever listened. . He

passed in review the work tliat had been done, the constitution of the new society, the declaration of sen

timents, and the union and earnest

ness which had marked the proceedings.f His closing words will never

be forgotten by those who heard

them: 1 1; ' ' '

"Brethren, it has been good to

be here. In this hallowed atmos

phere I have been revived and re

freshed. I have here met congo

nial minds; I have rejoiced in sym

pathies delightful to the . soulHeart has beat responsive to heart, and the holy work of seeking to

benefit the outraged and despised

has proved the most blessed em

ployment.

But now we must retire from

these balmy influences and breathe another atmosphere The chill frost

will be upon us. The storm and

tempest will rise, and the waves of persecution will dash against our souls. Let us be prepared 'for the

worst. " Let us, fasten ourselves to

the throne of God as with hooks of

steel. If we cling not to Him, our I

names to that document will be

but as dust. ... '

"Let us court no applause ; in

dulge in noJspirit of vain boasting. Let us be assured that our only

hope in grappling with the bony

monster is m an arm that is strong-

er than ours. Jjet us hx our gaze

on God, and walk in ' the light of

his countenance. If our cause be

just and we know it is His om

mpotence is pledged to its triumph.

Let this cause be entwined around

the very fibers of our hearts Let

our hearts grow to it, so that noth

ing but death . can sunder , the

bond."

le ceased, and then, amidst a

silence broken only by the deep

drawn breath of emotion in the

assemmy, lined up his voice an a

prayer to Almighty God, full of fervor and feeling, imploring his bles

sing and sanctfication ; upon : the convention and its labors. And

with the solemnity of this supplication in our hearts, we clasped hands in farewell, and went forth each man to his place of duty, not knowing the things that should befall us. as individuals, but with a

confidence, never shaken by abuse and persecution, in the certain tri

umph of our cause.

great good. Tho Republican Governor of Illinois led off in recommending and urging the adoption of satisfactory methods of relief when the movement was first started. Other Republican Governors have taken similar action. The nomination of Farmer McCutchins in New Hampshire shows that the Republicans are in full sympathy with needed reforms of this character. It may have been a very indiscreet thing for the Democrats to show their cloven foot so soon, but we trust it will be a lesson our farmers especially -will not soon forget or fail to fully improve. The extent to which they have al ready been sold out is only an intimation of "what the Democrats would do were they restored to powerin the government, and ought to be sufficient to put farmers and all others upon their guard. Al bany N. Y. Evening Journal. .

. Free BMkfta Deflaesl. Dr. Duncan of this city, when he

was, last winter, before the House

committee of Ways and Means, was asked to give his idea of free banking. He answered in thefollowing

terse and practical manner:

"Free banking, as I understand

it is the adoption of the system

formerly pursued in the State of New York, which allowed any bank to obtain circulation to any extent

for which it chose to deposit acceptable security with the Government and to conduct the rest of its

business at its peril."

. The National Banking Law was

larcelv drawn after the model , of

the New York State Bank Law;

and, hence, it contains many of its excellences, and applies them to a

currency svstem for the whole

country. By a mistake, which: ex

perience increasingly proves to be

real, it undertook to do too much in the regulation of the banking

business, and has thereby unwisely interferred with the popular free

dom of the banks and their utillity to the people, .Its legal tender

reserve requirement and its restric

tion upon the amount of circulation to be issued are examples of this

error.

Ample provision being made for securing the safety of the circulation, as is the fact under , the law,

then the Question as to how many

banks may be organized and how

much circulation may be issued

should be left to the people,: with

out any cast-iron restrictions upon

their discretion. It is really a business . question, and will take

care of itself better in the hands of

' So Increase of Taxation or Borrowing. The bankers, brokers, and money lenders of New York City "view with alarm the numerous propositions before Congress for increasing the volume of the currency." They repeat the self-evident falshood that "the country is now suffering, and has been for the past twelve years, great loss and incon-

' venience arising from an irredeem

able Currency. This rather re

markable document closes, as might

be expected, with a proposition to loan money to the government at a low rate of interest. The magnitude of the degree of impudence invnlvpfl in thin TroTnfiition of the

cent per cent specie resumptionists the people than it can be taken care is strikingly manifest in view of tho of by legislative prescription. It

fiiAt that th roIa rpnsnn nf th fn.1 is one of those questions that nave

hng off of the revenues of the gov no need of leading strings. Banks ernment is the scant volume of the organized whenever and wherever currency. The direct contraction the people so will, under the inof the currency to the extent of stinct of business, and having the

S300.000.000 dnrinnr the last five power to issue as much or as little

years, and the indirect contraction circulation as they please by the through the increase of population deposit of proper security therefor and business, have served to strand with the Government, would be in

commerce, and to threaten its destruction. Under these malign influences all industrial interests are hopelessly struggling. ' Put them on their feet by restoring the ' volume of circulation to something bke its amount in 18G8 $1,000,000,000 and the revenues of the

government will quickly rise not only to its needs, but far beyond; and the process of reducing the national debt will again be resumed. We neither want to increase tax

ation nor to borrow money from

The M. E. Church at Austin,

Scott county, has recently added fifty

persons to its membership.

South Benders cut ice from 4 to 6

inches thick last Monday with the prospect of filling all the ice houses in the cifr.

Grace Greenwood (Mrs. Lippin-

cott) is described as dark and . rather

pale, with bright hazel eyes and a

strong face.

The Johnson Starch works at Mad

ison, are filling an order from Germany for 12,000 boxes about 800,000 pounds of starch. ;

The tax' duplicate of Jennings

county for 1873 foots up f76,978, and

with delinquencies, penalty and inter

est added to $89,913. , ; - ?

Rev. Mr. Burch if conducting a

successful revival at the African

Methodist Church, New Albany. Over

thirty converts have joined the church

during the past two weeks. , i

The society of Friends of Jennings

and Bartholomew counties, held a great revival at Azalia, which continued from the 24th until the 28th ult.

The meetings were daily attended by from 300 to 500 people, all denomina

tions heartily joining, and 1J0 persons

professed conversion. '., I ; :4

A remarkable lawsuit is pending at

Charleston.' . A joker promised to de

liver a Mr. Carter six rabbits the next day for one dollar. - The dollar was paid, and the next day joker gave Carter six rabbits whittled out of wood. Carter was mad, and sued joker for the dollar. ; -

Last Tuesday a Lafayette hunter

took refuge behind a tree from an infuriated steer, and with a rifle planted seven bullets : into the body of the enemy without inflicting a fatal wound.

A youthful Goliah came to the rescue, and raised the siege by killing the bovine by a blow on the neck with a brick. . . .'. " '.. '

a condition to meet the business

wants of the country, as they can

not under the system of restriction.

Tbey would act freely.; There

would be no more bank notes , in

circulation than the business neces

sities of the . people : require, A

great amount would not be profit

able to the banks, since there would

be no use for it. Tho two things the circulatiou issued and the

demand for it would move . pari passu, and thus bank , currency I

would possess the important quaii-

cian's prescription. .They are holding, Faftic,e 01 business: lor dinusing a , . . , . . ! better knowledge of the aims of labor

mass, meetings in tho interest oft tem

perance, and the work gocsbravely on.

From some intonations we have had,

we would not be ;. .surprised to hear, of

something happening ln.liichmond. ;

I ' ASadBml Story 1 ! !At,Iarton in Grant county, there isfa young man who had Attained considerable reputation and business as a lawyer. He was a man of fine ability and seemed, to be on the high . road to prosperity. .When he got money ahead'he was in the habit pf taking a spree. Not long ago he wott a cause in court for which he .was W ell " paid. He went right away , and got drunk. He stayed drunk -several . days, and while in this condition his wife made up her mind that she must : take a

step which could no longer be delayed. I

She applied to the court then in sess- j

Democracy Selling; Out the Farmers.

To a long line of deception and

fraud in its past history the Dem

ocratic party is now adding the tricks and impositions it is practicing upon the farmers and grangers. No sooner was that movement start

ed than sharp, tricky, local demagogues, in accordance with a wink

from behind the Democratic scenes,

made haste to get control of the organization. And so, from being a dead weight to all progress, this

old, rotten carcass of Democracy suddently and mysteriously transformed itself into a party of "reform" If it would confine its labors to reforming itself, the world would say amen, and it would not

Wail street Business has been ty of elasticity, or the power to Rl.nr-irAd Ktr VAAnin tViA limit. rt vnr adapt .itself in - quantity . to the

nnrrfiTicy vnlmrifi far hfilow that of wants of busineSs, ? - . -i.

the lowest average of the most en- WTe hope that Congress will at lightened nations. The judgment length the sooner the better of the country has been swayed by make the discovery that the people

the clamor of the Shylocks of the

i New York money rings for "gold resumption," and the result is pros- ; tration to business and consequent ; beggary to labor. We want no ; more advice from the bankers, bro keis, and moneylenders of Wall ', street. The New York Times says:

"They represent in an unusual ! degree the commercial interests of

the whole country, for they have agents or correspondents in every city of the Union." This is not true. -They represent, at best, or worst, only New York City. They do not represent the country, and are not entitled to speak for the

country. The ; great commercial

and the banks, under a system of

free banking, would be perfectly competent to ; take care of : their own interests. .'. Practical men already understand this. When will the wise men who go to Congress

understand it also! N. Y. ; Inde

pendent. : IXDIA9A.

be out of work for a good while to f interests of the country have been

and thereby lightening . its burdens;

for social, moral and mental development; for mutual protection against

the wiles ot sharpers and middle men;

for aid in sickness, trouble or other adverse circumstances; for building

up and encouraging by money and pa i tronaee home manufacturers; for pre

ventinsr litigation, with all its troubles

and losses; for portraying the evils of debts with all its slavish consequences, . and thereby abolish the credit system; i for bringing the producer and, consunier closer together and thereby save enormous railroad tariffs; for inculcating eharitv to all, and stimulating : nobler impulse for the care and comfort of all .domestic animals. These and many other good things are the objects of the organization, and if confined to its legitimate business will do so much good in the world in ele va tin ir mankind, relieving his burdens.

ion for a divorce, and it was promptly j improving his mind, that the great granted. She set about making her , wave of Christian civilization will be

preparation to depart for the home she

went out from as the wife of the brill-

lant but untortunate man Irom whom she had been separated by. a court of

justice. W hue making these prepara

tions, and but a few hours before her departure, her husband's debauch came to on end, and he was in condi

tion to realize the situation of affairs. He did not rave, nor did he imniedifttelv pet - drunk a pain. He assisted

her to finish the sad task of preparing 1

to leave, and when all was ready they, with iheir children, went to a hotel to , await the arriving of a train. The children cooed "Papa," but' he put

them off by saying that they 'would soon be back. He went into the car,

kissed them all , good-bye, and then turned away sadly. : The wife did not show emotion She had , suffered all she could, and one tear. '" although it

might not reach the ' lid ot the "eye, would break down her firm resolves.

The tears were kept back while her heart was crushing. ' The train carried her and her children back to ; the home of her childhood, and the husband was left alone - in .the world to

fight its battles without the counsels ot a wif e and the prattle of his chil

dren: - . .

To adorn this tale it is not necessary

to point, a moral. Indianapolis bun.

Mrs. Webster, who 'has practiced

medicine Successfully ' for several years in New '.Beeford, Mass.1, - has

been ' appointed ' iTofessor of Hygiene and physician at .-Yassar College, in place of Prof. Avery, . re .signed. .... - . , . .. ,

Concerning the result of the trial of Corwin for the killing of Col.

Miss Belle Griffeths of Iowa, has Stillwell the Attica Ledger is of

been employed by the Governor of the opinion, Corwin"' deserved not that State rto'oompile statistics for only acquittal, but a full and gen his forthcomming report to the erous one, for the awful deed to

General Assembly on the Railroad which he was driven was not of his

Transportation question. I seeking.

pushed forward with accelerated im

petus and J leaven will light a new torch to aid the nation in its honest and earnest struggle for the redemption of man from ignorance and servitude, feeding him with higher aspirations, nobler sympathies, and broader notions of man's great destiny. These are the objects of the Order, and the true Patrons are steadily pursuing the great object of its organization; but it is becoming so formidable that our friend should not be astonished that there are corrupt men in it who are attempting to pervert it for base uses for their political advancement for attaining , to high-salaried

positions in the order or ior making

salary grabs in the shape ot enor mous charges for lectures and organ

izing Grantes. We confess with shame

for our race, that there are prominent

men in the order, who so soon as. they

cannot make money or position out of

it. Will leave in disgust. Uut secret

orders are not the only place corrupt

men creep for omce. Ihe church is

frequently used -. for base ' purposes

and there are putrid political carcasses now lying all over the country, who attained to power through the church, but who have been hurled from their positions on account of their open and

notorious corruptions. No, indeed.

you cannot condemn the ratrons on

account of the few corrupt men in it." i i. ;.. ; . ,

I -The amount of gold dug in Califor

nia since 1848 is $1,360,700,000, of

which $93,900,000 'was minted .in

! Hair-cutting is one dollar in Pres-

cott, Arizona, by . licensed barbers

The Apaches charge nothing and

make a clean cut." r i- i,; v' i.

, Colorado has her penitentiary as

full as it ' can hold, and - the jails

throughout the Territory are also ful

of criminals waiting their turn in the

penitentiary.

come. uroing from its acts in piling up a large national debt and bankrupting , the - Treasury in a time of profound peace, when ther.e was no interest to pay on. the debt created by a Democratic rebellion, to its gigantic frauds in New. YorkCity, to say nothing of its Chicago Gages and lesser lights, all at once it has Set itself up as the model party of honesty and purity, and claimes the right to go into the

lore ironi oi iue iarmers. move-1

It is surprising the farmers did

not see through this thin disguise of hypocrisy at a glance and promtly repudiate their-proffered assistance. But generous, forgiving, . open and

manly themselves, they knew it was

lull time for the Democracy to

bring forth fruits meet for repent

once, and a few of the more hopeful

were receivea on pronation. Lem ocratic deceit and dishonesty are

ajea in rne wool oi tnat party, and it is useless to attempt to wash them out The experience of the farmers in their new relations with

them is overwhelming testimony on the subject In the election in

Wisconsin last fall the farmers were sold out body and soul to the old Burbon Democracy, as the result has shown. All appointees by the new Governor are ingrained Dem

ocrats.- The Speaker of the Assembly is an old political demagogue of like stripe. And although the farmers in that State went into the

contest to secure redress of railway grievances, it is now openly charg

ed, and the charge has strong evidence to support it, that these Wisconsin Democrats, elected .bv

the votes of farmers, are the pliant tools of ? the railways and ran the campaign last fall secretly in their interests.' In Iowa and other Wes

tern States, wherever the farmers

have joined hands with the Dem

ocrats -they have Inost generally been sold out' in ; the same way. And in New Hampshire! where the Democrats are working hard to se cure help from the farmers, it is openly charged by a leading opposition paper which has more honesty than , is generally found in Democratic journals, that Weston, an old Burbon, was nominated for Governor by a most, glaring fraud of1 railway, combinations.; If . the farmers will contrast this course of the Democrats with what the " Republicans are doing in their behalf, they will not need to look twice to

see where their friends are found. The United States Transportation Committee will .throw much light upon this subject when its report is made, and its measures and recommendations will doubtless do

by following the self-arrogated

leadership of New York City moneylenders. The Times adds: "This is a question on which the Republican party ought to take the lead." The parties to the , "question" were very aptly defined by Senator Logan as: "Those who hold the funds, and those-, who need them; those who live by interest and percentage, and .those who live by labor and traffic.",, -Whenever, in the history of the Repub-

t lican party, the people , have been

so divided on any question, it has invariably . taken the lead on the

side of "those who need the funds," and "those who live bv labor . and

traffic." If it fails to do so in the ; present instance, it will commit a grevious error, and help still furI ther to :- prostrate the . industrial j interests of- the country. Inter-

i vcean. - - : t -.; .;:

!

judge Emmons on tbe Chief Justice. Of all his professional acquaint -

i ances he knew none who had a l larger, more varied, and successful ( practice. ? It was not one in which

; great numbers oi petty matters were daily disposed of with superi ficial examination. ' He had been

j constantly engaged in matters of : first importance, involving quesf tions demanding research and large ; professional experience. The Judge

said he could speak more partic-1 their former townsman, Governor

ularly of his thorough knowledge Newton Booth, of California, thank-

ing them kindly for the one hundred

The Howard county Agricultural Society has 192 life members, and is, of course prosperous. " Chief Justice Waite is a stockholder in the Milburn Wagou Company, of Milwauke, to the amount of $10,ooo. .v.;. . -..;Vf The presence of good bituminous

coal, in inexhaustible quantities in Montana, has been clearly established.-, , : ' 'y:'- -r -"-y , A reckless person, one night last week," went' into the cemetery of the Cambellite Church, at Schelville, and demolished all the gravestones therer in. , . ; .; K ., . ! A Commissioner of Miami county was fined $50 for attention shown a lady who was running away from' her husband.'; s'f;: - f'.: - ; Late Saturday night a lot of fellows on a spree 'near Monrovia, started

home mounted on horses and a race was started, the result of which was that one of the hoys was thrown from his horse and killed. ,; ' "" '" . A prayer meeting was held at the

Jeffersonville State - Prison, Sunday last, at which twenty-eight convicts professed religion and over 200 'rose for prayers! ; The meetings are to be continued. ' X ", , V '

J'. J i :-t:t .; -r , There is an organisation in Shelby -ville known as the "Band of Sisterhood," composed of ladies from all the churches, who are pledged "to the

work of eradicating the evils of intemperance and liquor selling." ' The citizens of Salem are elated over the reception of a letter from

' a it commercial and corporation

i lawyer. With - matters of . insui ranee, banking, manufacturing, and

u railway corporations and municipal

f bodies he was especially ' familiar. 1 In these departments, he believed,

he had no superior. His capacity for the place, however, he thought consisted quite as : much , ih his universally recognized and exceptional ability to analyze and promptly arrange the facts of complicated cases, and determine the application of legal principles to them. He never argued an unnecessary

i or too broad . a ; proposition. It

was a condition and habit of mind which eminently above Jail others fitted a man .for the bench. - -He

t considered the appointment as for

tunate a one, as any which had been

P made during the last twenty years.

ieuoib-xoKb. . . i

guns fired in honor of his election to the United States Senate. 1 ' ' .

" All reports' that' we now hear ; agree that the growing wheat in this section of the State has' been badly damaged by - the. alternate . : freezing and thawing of the past ! month, a considerable portion of some fields being entirely frozen ' out, so that the plant lies with its ( roots on top of the ground. Lafayette Courier.

.Appearances indicate that . the Louisville, New Albany and St. Louis Air Line Railway. . will be;. built by the aid of foreign capital secured by an issue of first mortgage bonds. " ' .The young people of Mishawaka are cultivating the drama, and . are practising on "Uncle Tom's Cabin,", which

will be brought out soon in proper

style.: " ; ''-4 i',t i '.

Mr, Myers, editor of the- Kendall-

villc Standard, has resigned the Post mastership .. of the town. , An "on

pleasantness" between him and the

Postoffice Department is charged, by

the Plymouth Republican. ,

! A district school in the French dis

trict in Floyd county has been broken up because the negro children of the

district had the unblushing audacity

to attend.. The white children and

the teacher left, but, the colored children, hold: the building. "Do you want your children to ? " for the

balance of the sentence consult any

Democratic speech before the war.

See Dow Tlpey Dwell. , Jeff Davis and Hangman Foote are not happy. In savage personalities they make the venom of editorial an-. tagonisms quite respectable Ly con-', trast. -Read:,.,,,, !; ... "I have not seen any of the articles which you say H. S. Foote had written against me, nor have I had any desire whatever to read whatever he might write. In the year 1851 1 publisned him as constitutionally a liar, and his subsequent career has only served to confirm me in thisjudgment. Since that date, therefore, I have taken no heed of the utterances of said Foote. His flattery when he was seeking political preferment in the Confederacy, and his abuse when, faithless to his trust, as a Representative in the Congress of the Confedj erate States, he was preparing for his subsequent desertion to the enemy, were alike disregarded by me.". : Now comes Foote in response, as follows: ; , , ,:''''': He has cherished an undying hatred for me ever since his own presumptuous arrogance, on a very noted

occasion, compelled me to slap his jaws in this city, in the winter of 1847 48. The hostility thus a engendered was afterwards much heightened by my defeat of his treasonable aspirations to . the office of Governor of Mississippi, as a secession candidate in 1851. J4y constant and unyielding opposition to him and his nefarious schemes in Richmond, during the war of the rebellion, for three years, was not at all calculated to assuage" his enmity. : - : -? ' - The M. E. Church South claims of , the government $400,000 for the use of its property in Nashville ; during the war. The editor of the ; Princeton (Ind.) Clarion says: . "; Of our personal knowledge it was estimated; to have cost only about $100,000, and 'notwithstanding' it was not destroyed or damaged to the extent of more than $10K0(K), if that much the M.'B. 'Church' South '4idw ' wanta to recover from the government $400, .Thcre is little , probability, of : the' success of a ' demand which, if the foregoing Statement 'Be" true, ''Is ex trayagantly impudent. The case howt ever, shows the necessity of, constanvigilance on the parti of the govern ment against its alleged creditors. -I the Southern sufferers could ' estab lish their right to all they allege, in the way of payment for damages, '.the mines of California could hardly sup-' ply1' the means for discharging ' the obligations, ; ' V '-'?J.A ..r . .. -, . . i . . " . .

.At this season, when buckwheat cakes constitute a part of almost ever

breakfast, the announcement that the syrup wherewith we have been wont to baptize them is a delusive adulteration, cannot but produce dismay, r A New York grand jury, after listening to the testimony of reputable experts; has made a presentment against ' tne sugar refiners and syrup manufacturers. It appears that the golden drips the most prized are the most adulterated, and that what we have .believed to be the quintessence of saccharine matter is, after al), a combination of salts of iron, muriate of tin, glucose, corn starch, sulphuric acid, and sugar. In fact, it has been hinted that if our' " iron ore supply should fall short ' that blast furnaces could then use molasses in its stead; and , that if our tin mines should fail we could supply the deficiency by boiling down our most delicious straw colored Syrups. Much", of the agitation has arisen by reason of a lady dropping a little syrup into cup of tea, which immediately became as black as . ink.' She thought an attempt wna being made to poison, her,, and straightway complained. . It appeared thath'er alarm was caused, by the manufacturer having added ar little more 'of the salts of iron than usual in that particular lot ol " syrury These deleterious" substances, whkih i are' used to improve the appearance -; of the-article sold, are injurious to the, : system and can be easily detected.. The sugar and syrup eating communis ; ty pf New York are demanding that" .; the offending makers of these spuri- ' ous sweets snail be prosecuted .'If yow; doubt the purity of a syrup hate it analyzed by the nearest chemist h.w

When manufacturers and business men wish to reduce forces and retrench1 1 expenses, they do not generally eon-; ' suit their employees as to whether it v.. J .. mi . i

i a it ire uuuu i uuv. x ucjr gU IU WUlL

anu uo it. jjet congress pursue the same course.