Richmond Palladium (Weekly), Volume 43, Number 50, 21 February 1874 — Page 2

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THE PALDHJ1L

JtlCllMON There is a proposition - 6tf foot to keep the Congressional library open on 8uudays. Oood.i ; .-vrt 1 f An average of seventy ear load of ice u.BU-d; the South... , . , Chief Justices CJki Taney, are to be perpetuated by Vtfto both Houses of Congress hav pasted Wbill for tbat purpcee-Htheyx'are 'JUV tost about $1000 each; A statue' of Genf Baker, who fell at Ball's 'Braff, . has also been ordered by Ckm4?e8--;that to ost mm::,; sfuwh U In Congress, the ni of this week, Mr. Shanks defended the' memory of Captain Jack and bia dodoes, and stated it as a fact that when General Canby was holding' hiaf. conference with Captain Jack 1W anlitaryliaes were being closed around the Mod oes. The State Grnfiof Ohio, Tjnet at Xenia on the ' 17th, 655 i dele gates, all maaterrfof granges, 'were I present, xnere are; (.granges in the State 555 hav&heen organized in the State sinoe April last The woman's war on liquor sajoons, is still prosecuted with, increasing vi gor. In Ohio, we see it staled, as-a fined fact, that ."over flOQ saloons have been closed and the number fast increasing." This, is glorious-news, and every well-wisher f humanity will bid them God speed," and 'shout; at the top of their -voices, jPry! oh, Sisters!" ' '"-, n:i i r-,), If it is the fact a alleged, ihe Winchester Journal jostry com plaines of postmasters within Ran dalph county, for furnishing lists of the Journal, coming to their ofces, to outside parties. Such - conduct is not enly a violation of their du ties as .officers, but no honorable ' man would suffer himself ,(o be thus used. ;. ; f..i; flU H':, Trmm BoetrlM. ' Speaking of "strikes,' the Morgan County Republican proclaims, the following true Gospel,: ,, ' fC ,, "We believe in co-operation and in union among laborers, hut wo are utterly opposed to strikes.' 1 They are wrong in principle and mischievous in practice, and never fail to injure all parties concerned in them, and often seriously affect the public generally. Theyhavo an inevitable, tendency to array capital against labor, .when the interest of both js best served, by harmony and pleasant relations. Like war strikes should' be the last resort.' The Indianapolis Exposition is to begin Sept 7, and continue' thirty days. The managers' have decided to issue no complimentary tickets. Tbat is right, and will be heartily endorsed by the newspaper men of the State, The practice of giving complimentaries, especially to 'editors, is a bad one, and we toopo1 Tt6 see it entirely 'Abandoned- soon. Let every poeeity, organisation, company, or mctt vidua! pay a they co. Uonnersville Times; '- "We like that move, and say Amen heartily to the - suggestion of the Times. . " ' v,.;; It will never do to underestimate. the strength of an enemy, in order to conquer; much better W1e always on the alert and prepared for the worst, and take lessons from their vigilance, uud adopt their counsels "whenever they are tound to be right counsels, We commend the fbllowing'advice to Democrats, by the "Vineennes Sun,' to oar Republican friends, of i'Pld Wayne:" :U-V ,ln "Commence at oace to make active and determined preparation for a bold and hard contested .fight. ,Now is the time to form clans. ' Now is the time to effect local organisations.' ' Now is the time to look around , for the best men to fill County, Congressional and State offices. All personal prejudice and neighborhood combinations should yield to a higher and better principle that of love ef country and devotion to the only parry that prom ises xeuci iuiu prosperity to uc i-uun try. i i i A 11; Private Dalzell, volunteers the fol lowing advice to the women of; Ohio, and to their sisters throughout our liquor-cursed land,, who engage in the Prayer Crusade: !" I .a i "But one danger lies hi your path That is the charlaritry of hynocTites .who will try to coin your pious labor into stoaj.1 , ur caimiarfy wnmlpulata them into votbs.-.-. Haon all such. You need no help' bait ( such as the Lord Almighty will send you, without money and without price. You charge nothing for your prayers'.'' The thought is blasphemous, whoever asks you for money is a hypocrite and a sooun. drel. Shun all such." - v i .7 i ! ujt-i-Tn Ohio it i believed, that thitf has a dim. but not yet entirely indistinct, reterence to ur. vio i.ey, is., a ., t. ,..t. We .take the above fxouijihe, Indianapolis Journal, and in justiceto Dr. Lewis, who has been the means of accomplishing so much good, 1 we would say that, notwithstanding he charges fifty dollars for going to a place sand lecturing, he oftentimes has to . pay for the use of halls out of his own pocket, and, together . with his necessary expenses, if he 1 comes ; Out ' even he is content. Pecntarily, we learn, that the Doctor's Outlays have been more than his '.income from , this source: but he considers himself "well paid" in being the humble instrument in the hands of the Almighty in doing what he can to dry up the sinks and fountains of iniquity. : 111 a? For the encouragement of the wo men, Dalzell says: T, '. " . r "All the angels will quit their lofty thrones in glory, and join you in your : ...... ......wla AMiMf mm

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From the Cincinnati Uosctte. TEMPERANCE.

Th9 TeMpcniMt PrMemt-IIlB Mr I tf I It is nothin temperance aa kind, at least m its widesprc enects. I lhe controversy with it is not new. Intemperance isas -eld as-Ntmb: -andme movement against it as old as llechab, the old Hebrew, who formed aJemTranswietvsomethKe thousand years ago. -11 is" "an bld 'subject and .an pldycontroverAju Btttrhe . . ... methods w the temperance-movement aia nsw.,and Uftg.hjvn nasn ehangari greatly in different ages and periods If thehifitory of intemperaaeeaiBd wf it' would embrace almost thdhisterv of humaai society. It would "show that th wild . intoxication, . the' imorak' blindness of-t nations (not lets-thaa that of individuals) had arisefa;as the ' philosophical historians say, from luxury, buttbat S large part of that lttxury .was mtemperancei -It we '-could have Bat down to dinner with BelAhaasar atBabylonor Aoicius rat -Konie. or with the demagogues of revolutionary France, we should have seen how the affairs of nations were led and isflucneed.by thb passions excited bjf the. wine.: cup. Then ' nations! twere governed -.by die lew, and those :fw were moved by all the intemperanoe; not merely of the body,-but ol wild ambition, of recklets' extravagbnee,' and bf icrwel bigbtry.u If we look down thUJia )f . history we shall find the world greatly improved, and espettklly is ear own conntry, -I t is to the fact and. mode of this improvement that we eall the reader's attetitieut by way of -enooutagement. ' - First of jail: we must ciear away some great. enBotoe.! 1. It is a mistake to suppose that ih tempera acc relates to any particular kind ;of ljquor, or material of which it 19 composed, IntemperancpoH6vst8 in Jhe vadue excitement ef laftanunat tvoo, of,, the.; mind' or body, whatever niay.baye caused.' it,-. .Sometimes it only excites, sometimes imnairs . the judgment, or deranges the mind, or nullif os, as in the drunkard, the poar ers of mind and body. There was an old citizen of Cincinnati who died qtfifcirifch; Tfatyho netefr would make" the least bargain' after dinner, because he was a hard drinker, and he well kn?w the effect of that : in impairing the judgment,'? Tbisexcitins and dei. ranging the just powers of the mind be produced, by. any. atimulants 1 an d therefore it is not worth while to;l inohifewhat the man. is stimulatinr wHhfnor to' prove that it ts adiiltera- ! ted, or to go into' any ehemieal 'analy st whatever it-w Hen intemperance exists, or te causes of it, or the temp-, tatiou to itrit is alike , iujurioaa to thOjinuiyidual, to society, and to' the wbtld,. It is an evil Of .such trckendovfs'tnagnitude as Ftoovershador'all nnaOV 1 eotfsideraGeM.- In Tcgard to kinds df liquor, there have beonkuie 1 astonishinKmisrepresentatiowriHoiue men ei high intelligence have endearv, orediQ persuade.ua that there was no drunkenness. in wine countries!' There ; may not be 'so much drunkenness in incgutyersi vui mere is as mucn lntem'rJeklice in the wiie eontrii;a' -se in any other: v Franco is full otiatehi- . Derance.t lhe suicidists lound in the : Seine, and their dead bodies, exhibit-. i ed at tJie.iHorgae. at , irarisuafee qne r OKiue iQBiimony .on inis sudjccu en have been made drunkards in this country by drinking nothing but jpuiu uiuc&t.-' ncii uaiv uvcu iuuir juitemperate, in .every. country, by i the use of every 'species ef stimulant.' ,t . 2. It is a mistake to suppose wc can reform the human heart by law: We can "not do it.v No human law- eau i make men virtuous. No human law can reach the inner spirit or the pri vate hie. But law can reach the.outwrdacts, and it can. abstain. 'JrojuJ eyil.-;' Here is the point of rdifficully, . ami .-here wthe' place tor 'wisdom., liaw has made drunkenness' a- crime,' and if it be a crime, the law sboukldo what it does in ; ot her. cass of berime. It should erect an inebriate asylum (as it-has done a penitentiary) and sebd "the drunkards ' there, whether j they want to or not. If they are'eomI mittihg a crime against the State, and : if their conduct is the result (as they say) of deranged mind, then they ; should. be 6ent to the inebriate asylum i orrthe lunatic asylum, as the case iaay 1 be. . Society . must support thema at auy'rate (mark that), and society f should economize by sending them to . institutions where living is cheap, and ! reform Is" possible. -i Again j the law 1 and society recognize . the simrle fact ; that the - man . must: provide for - his : family., Henee, if drunkenness has 1 made, him tail in that, that is itselt. a crime. .To that crime there are two, partics--himself and the liquor seller' who mdde him drunk.1' They are com-' mOnT parties to a crime. -Hence; the . lawt must notice and punish that crime. ! If. should punish the drunkard in the ; manner .1 have described. ; But how ; shall the liquor seller be punished ? 1 The rule is a simple one. ; He is first a ! party to a crime, he is next the cause j of A. B. being a criminal and neglect- . ing1 his 'family. Here we have .the j foundation of indictments to be tried : by .the courts; and it is safe to say that ! there is not one groii. shop or saloon of: a i hundred , in .Ohio whieh would ! escape, punishment under that law, if i it were enforced. The grand jury of 1 Clermont county have brought in one I hundred and sixty indictments against I the1, grog shops. ' It is to be hoped thai the Prosecuting Attorney'- the ' juries, and the Judges of that county will ektQ it that the witnesses are ; redy and , that rthe law is enforced... The American people are a law abiding people. .' There is no name " they . reverence more than that of law.- Then let ns : enforce the . law. Let us seeJustice Hone,; though the heave as fall. Here we come Ur the Adair 4aw,".oue of ..those happy -thoughts which are sometimes -struck , oat. inadvertantly. This law practically aims at restoring totheVife and children some Part of ..what. they have lost through the crime ot the saloon keeper. ihere are men in the country towns who sell the last egg. and chicken the- poor wife, has saved to get her .a calico gown with,, that -they may get drunk in a saloon, whose keeper' knows xactly what he h) doing. , He is cruet and criminal, but the "Adair Law" -provides only that he shall pay back to that family some of the gains he has made by vice and crime.. ;Let it stand, and let it be enforced to the last dollar. 3. Now wo come to the encouragements' of history. If from the days of llechab to this time we had 'made no i progress; then, indeed, we might despair: We might think that God had withdrawn the light of His countenanoe, and left us here to fight alone with the sins and the frailtiesrof hu- . man nature. But it is not so. We ' have advanced even in the reformation of sin, and all these labors and I these strivings are not in vain. - How did, the Christian lepublic ef North ! America come f into .existence, if,. we , had not .made progress ? r How, .did we come to be the foremost nation of the earth; if we had1-not made pro- : gross? - How did we put down slavery? 1 -How did thousands of women come to

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has taken place in this country within sixty years. Most ot this time 1 can TCmuuibcrr-Letrmp'tltPn' state undoFirst thfen1,'' TninSed'iatery' 7aftcir' th'e - e YululionKe. wilLsay fronxUdQ ia. Ib'lU both inhdelity" and intemper ance had increased and prevailqd tq an alarming degree. Witlfoat men-1 iUwyptisn ef twi i j ,"Upper ten,7 that is. the higher classes t r6f -society,1 wefeinfected with infidel i" j tyult -is" only: neoeBary, to mention' r hraoi GiiAn i-mn n a l ntfnvo An l sa v and.f lerrepomt iidwards. ot Looncctictit.'J" Hundreds might be added to such namesf but these are enough.' So it was with intemperance -.;.Tho wives of some ef. the most distinguished men, ir Arqerica : were (irunkards, . There is no doubt of the Tact, apd panics cad be given. One-of the'wost' distinguished gentlefffeli'6f the devolution used td go with his wife-to iome distinguished balls, and treat her with all the courtesy which a kind-hunband and a gentleman -could do; but after awhile she would ' be full of the beVt of wine, and unable to cross the ball Teotn Then he would take her arm in! hiB and iny.'"Myn dear, we best go home. ' . And so they went. buch was boeiety sixty years ago, and here ps the marked difference: - Sixty years a jk it was a mark of hospitality, a po liteness' not -to be avoided to- offer every Caller even early in the morn- ' in brandy, wme, cake, or some re freshment f this feort. Now, what lady, or gentleman, who is in true "soL:..." l.i ir i: , iaorning call?' There may be some jwno oo it: dui oe assured they; are hot in s bad sometv J' and mav as well t ease this practice, as one of the aban doned vulgarisms.- If their- guests raust have drink, let them go to the "saloons" or their own rooms.- No one's- liberty is, or can1' be. infrinjred; upon, but let i hot good society offer temptations to this vulgar and vicious practice. ' It doe not, and there is no question that, in regard to the educa ted and wealthy elasses ot ,-sociefy, there is a: groat imnrevement. - But the burden of this vice how falls upon the ; laboring classes and it is upon them that the iniquity ot open drinkiag houses falls the heaviest and the worst.: l: Some startling statistics might be Riven u this subject. Is there no hope for the" poor working man against the temptation of the saloon? Is there none for the young men who seek vx cirement ana rouse ; their ipassions behind the green doors of in grog shop. We think there is much hope, but it is to be found in the' steady, perse-' ivering, pevsistent .efforts of all who" are either 'ft-iends of Christianity or friends of the republic; for a republic enh no wore live without temperance than it can- without intelligence. ? :But let us proccd:i 'lho-"Wash-injtouian" excitement did great good. If - the Washingtonians did not sue-1 cced by law, or sop tippling houses,they did retonu thousands oi mdividuals, nnd arrest IliOunands of i otliers On the verge of lestruction'. i: So thd "Father Matthew' movement in Ire4 land did great good. J 'But there needs lo'be More teTsibtent measures, and, i if v,& mistake not. the woman s movc'lietitttf Ohio: will tuake it.-' -t Perhaps the Faiue-:ri6vcl mt'thods may "not be contiaued,and they knay not ut'anothcrtime - be necessary-' i - But ! they have been begun like the auti-slavery movement with two principles of tremendous powen'with the conviction of a disastrous evil to be suppressed, and the earnestness of faith, which feels that it can and, must bo suppressed. Slavery ; was as old as man. It enlisted; the- power of every gov bad' ern-t went on - earth.- It had enteHed tho American republic! and become a canoeT' upon Ua heart; breaking but in pntrefymg sores. No man knew what to do with it. - No policy could be devised; no Christian could form a plan Of self-deliverance; and yet, like ' ship which goes suddenly down in the ocean, it perished without the least warning of its fate: ' We may not. destroy ontemperanee because it is innate -in. human nature, but 'we- may destroy the temptation to it by taking away the srstaining force of- law:' The woman's movement is not merely putting down grog shops: that would be a very short sighted view of it. ; It is setting the elements ih motion..- It is Catherine an the forces of public ooinion. -The man who sued the ladies in iiiimooTo is neipinir " them. tie is making votes by hundreds, i e . We admit that intemperance may long' remain, but ' the coming movement will very probably drive it into retired spots, and take from it- that bold effrontery by which it ; flaunts itself i public places, and crosses the path of public virtue. - ' ! : Cincinnati, Feb. 9. E. D. M. - It is difficult to say whether' the Sand annual tomfoolery given at New rleans, entitled the Mardi Gras Carnival, is a symptom of constitutional or merely1 temporary aberration ' :6f mind. The American people in general are ot a grave and solemn rather than of'a rohekmg and rrenchined character, and it is a question whether this meaningless adaptation of a silly foreign custom does not resemble the faweral drunkenness of s professional mute. -The southern people are nothing if not imaginative and chivalric. That is to say, they cling to a variety of customs whieh were more honored in' the breach than the observance.1 even in the ages to whose want of general knowledge : and education they rp'aaBity. Pi ret, -we have the duello, once- they of addle-pated men - of 1 family i with- nothing to do, now entirely abolished in England, and. all sensible countries. Next comes the tournament, where a number' of young gentlemen, arrayed in toilets prepared by lovinjr female rela tives; bestride home-made steeds, and rnsh frantically with a lone toothpick at a brass ring. Having executed this dangerous' feat!-to the admiration of themselves and their Dulcinea: del Tpbbsos, the valorous knighlsadvance to a platform, where Miss Fits-Smithy or, lfe tioncs,s tne case- may De, is crowned queen of love and beauty, and the cnampion, who have executed ! what -every cavalry Tough-rider eonsiders the work of a mere novice, flatter themselves into the belief that they are a sort of a cross between Ivanhoe and an attenuated representation of 'Front de Boeuf. ' But the crowning glory of Southern chivalry is this carnival, and with the assistance of a 8OIDI8ANT king ' and a mystic crew, everybody turns a somersault, fancies himself 6,000 years of age, and, for the time being, it is to be fervently hoped, is happy. - -' ! : ' ' ; 'Mr. Bugbee, of South Bend, has invented . a , steam canalboat, with which he expects to "scoop" the $100,-; 000 offered by the Canal Commission-' ers of the State of New York for such an invention. t , ' ,' ' .' ' l'.

Am Old Halae Uar Law lSe. July 15, 16k;? la. the Court ofsBions of tie Klce for the Prnco .vfBayiM hef Uat York. ere llajor John 1 JSvis, Deputy jPr YdntCarain Lvancis IIooVM kr

atfcs .VCLc)hn WincoT-f WHEREAShereJsjatcqnlaint made of several abusestaken notice of Rum, Flji, Sc., lhe fll consequences whereof imWM41v seen ia-4bomii behaviour of several persons in the preafetici'tf authority fyr li tenlingxhc likfe lor the rattrtc1, ltp.tbcrc-' fare; there shalrnot be 'any' Runi, or other strong Liquors or 4lyp, be sold unto any Inhabitant of the town or in any Ordinary keeper sell unto any stranger more than one gill for ja pecson t onetime.; And all civil. officers. es pecially select men and (Constable, jn the respective towns in this Pr6vinc"e ,' a.- . t ..i.. -.iii. 1 Z. ore Tequireu w iae -cepeuiBi are oy inspocting any suspicious-.House or Houses .where any such . abuses. ) pr profancness may be.addedvand ineaso afly Ordinary keeper shall presume tq Transgress this order he snalHmme-3 diately forfeit his License. - f ii!: If thev . have been endeavoring to prohibit the sale oi liquor ,since .(f)pj t-iwo iiuuureu auu seveBieea jearerr with so 'little effect, is it -not.-iirbout time to try some other method? 4 .7-" . The Ncw,YQrk ;Tribune is responsible for the following Soutk-Caroljna storyf ' 'A" jury; composed bftjfejve colored citiiena, came into oour after a case of grand larceny hid been submitted to them. Having been "asked two or three times if thcy ,ha4 agreed upon a verdict; theV -responded "No bill,": which they finally altered "to "None guilty."i -It.: was thcjpi discoy-t cred . that- noi.one.of, the, jury could read and write, whereupon the J udge dischargfcd them on; the grouhd that they were' incompetent. ,: The members of the jury and their friendw book offense at, this -ruling, and, took the case to the Legislature upon a petition for the. Judge's impeachment. 'The committee charged to inquire into' the acts simply; submitted; thorn, .'leaving the IIouj-c to judge of their importance and legality;' but the chairman of the committee said he "wanted the Judge to understand that he was elected by colored people mainly, xwho were themselves elected by tboso.very colored men. whom he bad pronounced too ignorant to act as jurors'. ."The case is still pending-in the Legisla ture. ; :;-. .v . While the 'Opposition 7T . . papers are chuckling'over the supposed perplexi;' ties 01 the I rcsiucnf, it 'may h6t be ainiss to recall Frank Blair 'sJ opinion ot .him: . ""Nobody secnis" ta understand him. Even his friends do not give hini credit foi! the power he- undoubtedly pos 8SsR..-;Np.nian h. considered' able; nowadays, unless he Ciiu write. a leader or innke a ppt cch, and' Clraut can do neither. -Yet it seeing to' me that a man who won - so umnW battles, and that too, when xiihcrt; hud failed miserably, might be credited with some extraordinary qualities. In" politics he has' succeeded whcTe Avcar men would have tailed. 110 idid '-Mot strengthen his adnuiustratiou, at, the start by "drjwiu around hiiii'the ablest 'men in the part which elected mm: lie aa s iack(cn betore him, selecting r ou known ' iatm;.; but' they might be good men tor all 4 hat. - r ow rresideuts . could have , afforded to quarrel with such leaders as Trumbull, Sumner and Schurz. 1 Each-' of these had a strong faction at, his back; ret presented ... a certain .portion of -the party strength, and yet (jfraut was reelected as easily as if these 1 men had never been cast Aside, 'though the$de-'-fections of. the three would have riiined .the prospects of an ordinary aian." . : r. ' Tho Petty Frllngr of Jenlonsy i; Which still bars the way of women to professional eminence in Europe: and America does not exist; at the autipodes. The University of Melbourne has opened its degrees to ihe gentler sex. At a meeting of i the ' Academi cal Senate it was agreed that the- re--?:ulat ions permitted women, to attend ecturcs and to pass the cxaminat ions. It was also resolved that ''theCouncil should grant to such' females as have attained proficiency equal to that attained by Bachelors of Arts and Masters of Art3 certificates thereof. and also to throw open to them the j 1, I 1 1 vi iin. v.. unci 101,1 . At the last matriculation examination two young ladies were the, only candidates who. passed wilh credit.; .' " This example of colonial liberality might well shame the mother conntry. In England female aspirants to diplomas, first .classics, and, senior .wranglerships arc still kept out of the quiet cloisters and Gothic halls of Oxford and Cambridge. But a breech, in the Chinese wall of antique prejudice and learned cxclusivencsaJs gradually being made. "Every year the assaults on the stingy old preserves of masculine scholarships arc becoming fiercer, and the time is not far; distant. -when, the princely revenues at present employed to keep drowsy beadles in dimly-lighted corridors, and1 to decorate the ghosts of mediaeval funtionaries for an annual puppet show, shall be -.de-j voted to the training of the feminine mind. When the skirts "of ""iswect Eaduatcs," with golden :(and " Other) ,ir, brush the siik gowns ol the mo rose dons, the streets of the shady old towns on the Cam will-no. loncer . be given up to the contemplation of rceli-. bate monks: r.!;"1 f'f '''" ''' '' ' --- Dr.-,. I.lTlMStoii. : r The celebrated ' African. .traveler' Dr. , Livingstone, is again'.'repprted dead. Ijikc tho Democratic party, he has died 'so often, ' nod yet escaped buriaL that we deem it unsafe to write his obituary until we -hear , from, the manwnoaugms grave, ana, who is willing to." swear, that ; the ' original Livingstone the : one captured' by Stanley the erratic explorer -who preterrea the low marshes ,pt Africa to the hhrh livinc of England.' has in deed passed awav forever. It is nuite possible the story is true; butin- view ot the tact that this identical exmorer has been torn to pieces by lions, killed a dozcu times by, treacherous savages, and several - times' drowned "in the headwaters of the Juilc, we 'can. well afford to wait for the confirmation of this latest report regarding his fate. xuc xwepuDuc. ---- - :t "., ;- V. , .Tb InOitM rmialca. . J ' A special to the Journal"" from Haleton. Gibson County, Ind.. says" that last Saturday the ladies of that plaee organized for a movement on ; the liquor dealers, and to-day they visited the saloon-keepers and druc stores in a body, held services, and . besought liquor dealers to eive un the traffic One of the saloon-kceper9 acknowlj i.i.ii- 1. ?. eueeu luat his cosiness was .not as holy as it might bc but he has thus far resisted all entreaties.. The "work will bo continued to-morrow, the la dies being determined to-' carry their

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WerklnR-m of the Brain. Dr. Brown Seqaard lectured re1' c itW to a Krce aWlUvoo. in . ihi

t vn' ti t.n inif I1MX "J MM d-Jo?Jea ihUhl. Volitional, SensorW; Phenomena. JSIany I prominent pbysicians were in the Twas a popular one. After briefly tescrTbui" the naake-tfp of the fieryus stt-ni and bbMUiliCy lecturer iaiA ft -sfb4tan ice

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manv carts of the nervous -system. may arrest activity or pxcate morbid activity with' a iret ariety of phemoniena. xne Dram ltseir may act ton'rtself inlbis wajr'Many parts of the nervous system J have espee ia! 'pbwer in this respoet, and a very slight irritation may produce 'faro jmendons aetivay. -1 strong : convalsiona have been 1 ended I by : paring away a, bit. of flesh wherein the :ixrjr; taton , existed 1 Alio., causes , are somctimeSjextremely slight indeed, Frederick,tbe , Great (so called) of Prns'sia, ate his dinner "one .day-l that Vas'ValL' " 'ThieW'- 'iere some dozen (lishesramonfr the "lighter of which1 ,-wbre beef stewed, m' brandy, potenra: ana a veai pie, - bo noc ana hh?4dv seasoned 1 that it ' seemed to haVe been bakecl inin-ft place very for from thiB lecture-room and he was thrown into convulskmsJ ? Irri-r-tation of a icertain muscle of the eye may produce the . catalyptic state, ;What is die kind, i.o , irritation by which , activity ; can .bp,, arrested? rt' -i! ' " ti Li a i:'' J 4 xCHjirauxu cau, pc( . ijy mi act 01 wiii,.or oy pressure 01 a cer tain nerve'. Cftughs,. sneezing," and I biccougbs bV the will,' or by press(nsciottsness ceaBes 'during sleep," trat its cessation is ; caused - by an : native irritation. - I have had thirteen cases' wherein -convulsions of tho lower, limbs have' been -. stopped by a pressure upon, the big toe. The convulsion vhich draws . the head mound to one side, can be stopped if, before , consciousness , goes, the, head is pulled around t). the other side.'." A jet of carbonic acid forced through the larynx " will ' Bi op'. the convulsions caused 'ujf strychnine of following loss of blood. - A dis ease orijnry- 'of the brain; even when sligbti may '"prodnce a 'reat variety cf 'phenomena f grehti in .tensity,' whilo it. -may again extend over one entire . side of , the brain without producing ny phen'oii) ena whatever, The two Bides. of- the brain are exactly alike in function; and either of them is perfectly competent.fto. perforin the , functions coiunionly attributed to both. Our education of the body is unfortunate in that it is one 'sided. If the left hand iind ttie left 'side were hs good as the the light "hand and light &ide if Is 5lremely,pr6ballo, that two sidts 6f 'tho brain ' would act where one 'acts' now, iihdrit: wonld be'a great'giifn if we.hijjdtvV'O brains', instead ojie-fi Sompjvho are now dumb would . certainly gain' ; the powtr of. speech in that ease. ? The mind does not play cb the nerves n!s a man cn a pinno, - or receive sensations; by return vibrations. Tn the first place the number of fibres of. communication with lhe body is extremely sm:dl as compared , with tho number of absolutely . different motions'wc can pcrfdlru - or sensatadns we 'can' receive. In' lhe second place the bond ; of union may bo almost en tirely 'Beyered and. the motion and sensations bo. scarcely affected. - : We cannot infer, either, that the Seat of irritation is the seat of the mental act causing the activty whiclii: the J irritation produces. For irritation of the 1 bowels" inav produce aphasia, 'and ye' should be unwilling to scat the mental act in speaking in the bowels. Tickle the eet and the muscles of the face contract, but we dd not assume that the scat of will for those muscles is in the feet. ' we Know genorally that the base of the brain controls the' muscles. The 'seat of vital force has bocn placed in the medulla ';ob-T longaxn, out uuuutua m o ucii meir medulla is removetVrf The mind has ittle power over the body as re-' gards nets of will. J What can be done without the will is sometimes immense. The win nas no vorv great power. Its function consists only ii pointing an end, and not at all in performing the movements it has indicated. A great many facts go to show that when the will has given an 'organ something to-do that thing is done without further trouble to the wilh as'S telegraphic dispatch has been sent and done with. vAnd the fact that when- al most all the fibers ' of- the medulla oblongata are destroyed Sense 1 and motion 'may' bo perfect seems to in dicate that the communication has been by a J kind of. ' telegraph for wliich one wire is" as good as many and not bv a vibrataon of fibers wherein a separate hber, is needed to transmit each other from the will or each sensation tot: , - ji o-; --' m ,T'i i The temperance war still goes on Wltn vigor . in ajuikiuii, uiurabWT, ' r -. , t 1 . New Tienna, Washington C' H Athens.-Kinlv in short, thereis a lively, fire' all along the line, which is ramdlv extending. In 1'nyton, Spnngficltf, Chilucothe, and other places, the forces' are getting ready for the battle, and Major General Did Lewises expected soon at' the front." 'Van Pelt, of New Vienna, has at last wounded arms, destroy ed his whisky, and had a collection of $150 taken ' up for bis benefit. To be culled "the : wickedest man in Ohio1' was too much ' On whom will the Old mantle fall next? . ,1,. -1 ..- m''-it," j, 'r' - ' Senator Cameron has taken up with tho common sens .proposi tion that if the financial legislation of Conerressis to go no further than to amend the national bank irifr Bvstem. the best thing to do would be to make it absolutely free, under the 'existing restrictions, 4 to whomsoever' can "command', the rennsiteSecuritv. ' Senator Morton, it is " reported, will : support the

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fS aafS yU 1 J 7 T VrfT " 1and a the exoirafibn Of the morn 1 T 1 TT ' W inc hour,.1; the ffienafco resumed! coiisfderation ofSbe bftfy) equalize the currency. Senator Cameron offered a snbstitnte f orrthe bill re-4 ?-H&!fejrc2S all acts of ' Congress which limit or : restrict the-eireulation,- and providing that National Banking shall be fee ta hlljsubfci id J1 limitations now prftvidel .bylafc..r,Trpft ,tli limit . as to circulation, hereby ' repealed. Pending discussion upon amotion to recommit the ' original bill, ; together with the ' substitute, back to the Committee on Finance, the Senate adjourned. . ;' t-oR ; -.otsE: I--, - , 'A large number of new bills were introduced and several memprials presented, n A resolution wSB adopt ed instructing - the committee on contingent expenses in the Department of Justice, to inquire into tho Judicial Expenses of tho ; Western District of Arkansas. A bill was passed regulating the duties of the Secretary of the Treasury, providing against the refunding of monies paid into the Treasury f or Onstom Duties," unless tmder authority of certain provisions in tho act. , The remainder of the session was taken up with . micellancoas business, which was discussed without being finally disposed of. , ' -' 1 . , ; BEHATE.,-!- . i: .. v . ' Taesdoy, Teb 17. i ' 1 . 1 Several new,bills wore introduced and petitions presented. A 'resolution was' agreed to, ; instructing the Finance Committee to, inquire into the expediency of providing that hereafter all. banks shall be organized or chartered by the States, the State to regulate tho number of banks and circulation required and bo responsible to", depositors ; and the United States to issue the notes of said banks upon deposit of bonds as in the case of i National banks and become responsible for redemption of said notes. A joint resolution was passed au thorizing tho Secretary of. War to ' detail medical officers of , the. army to., inquire and report upon : the ; cause of epidemic cholera; At the ; expiration of the morning hour the ; Senate "resumed consideration " of ' the bill. to. equalize tho distribution I of the currency, the pending motion I being to ro commit the bill to the Committee-on Finance. Several t amendments were offered, and pen ' ding discussion of the subject the j Senate went into executive session ; and soon after adjourned. ' , ' " - : HOUSE, - A bill was passed atrthoriring the clerk of the War Department l to issue warrants upon the treasury. l Also a bill transferring the military prison from' Bock Island to JTort Leavenworth, Kansas. The? eon ! tested election case from . the third congressional district of . Arkansas was taken up, and the report ol the majority being that W. W. W ilshire was entitled prima facia to the seat, was adopted by 118 ayes to 96 nays. A motion to lay a motion to reconsider the vote1 on ' the fable was met by dilatory motions on the part of the opposition and ;npon call of the roll it was found-that no quorum was present, a bolt having oeen maae oy tno .uemocrats, ex cepting Mr. Cox, and the Bepub lie ins who voted against the report. An all-night session seemed imminent, but a motion to adjourn finally prevailed by a vote of o7 to 81 In tho. Senate, on the . 19th, the bill to .equalize tne currency was under consideration no conclu sion. In the House the bill providing for free postage on public docu ments and certain printed matter, was discussed, and occupied the ontiro day session. ; ; i .... v .. - , ; ..Mrs. WoodhulTs husband, who bears the sanguinary appellation of Colonel Blood, visited tho office of the St. Paul Press the other morn ing to destroy " the ruthless editor who ventured to remark that Victo ria was a "nasty, blasphemous, and foul mouthed slanderer. Luckily,' Colonel Blood did1 not find the editor in, but we imagine he re turned soon afterward, for we find in the next day's Press, a repetition of the offensive words, and a mild conviction expressed that "There are women in St Paul, leading dishonored lives and under the ban of law and society, who would feel as if adding immeasur ably to their shame by resorting to such a malicious, mercenary, and filthy rut of defamation and indie criminate scandal as is found and followed as a money making high way bv this roving brood of , foul birds who ; glut themselves on , car lion and fatten on it. - , J When a business man finds his expenses over-running his receipts he invariably retrenches; makes less show; spends less money, in his household, instead of borrow ing to meet the deficiencies, If he doesn't do this, he is not a business man, but . a fooL Mr. , Dawes is right inlaying out such a. policy for the government. If its expens es, in time of peace, after having had time to gather np the loose items of war recklessness, exceed its income, its first and only duty is a reform m the expense depart mcnt until tne balance sheet is healthy. Not to do this, is for legislators to act the fool. In fact, as they are-, custodians of other peo pie's money, to fail in this necessa-. ry economy is worse than folly it is knavery. Let -Congress cut down tho appropriations, and then cut down the official brigade, until there will be no occasion for a deficiency bill next year. Ind. JournaL ' ' ' . The report of the City Treasurer, of Omaha, Nebraska, shows a total city indebtedness of $288,695 89, and assets, $355,401 15. .',.'.

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l.nnfi ii-xa. match fac- - i 1 . '-V W-i Vjv.' J I -i : IX gift of 16, name n;iry J. liawx. ip lnd I af Vstftr he-stealing at IhdiaDLMS. - j The students of Asbury College -rvanwonriate literary exercises. There aroin.the .State fprtyne odees of theTCnightsof Pythias, with a membership X .JOY Indiana has ninety national hank a The Floyd county, soup, house conr ibutes to the 6 ttpjjort 'of eighty1 famA distillery fn'taf riot, Switzerland county, produced in January -s,u& gallons of Whisky'": 1 - "-, A novel strike occurred recently at ilii l.tli'-J-1'' ira'i -1. -t J-i'i,v ureeiiauuri;. xuv vuuu iu u 'odist Chuch struck for an organ, a)jd . ..' .. . -.'--i . " : v' 1 gOt It.., i, rv,:? f --!t fttSt A ' dispatch1 says' a scandal, whioh will involve the reputation of some very respectable people, is developing in that portion of South Bend,. Ind., nown as Lowell. ; i j H- aary'i William Foley,' whilefundcr ihh rafluence of ; liquor, threw himself into the canal, at Indianapolis, on Monday, from the effects of which he died yes-,-n' 1 Kiti ;t:.".iierua. jie leavt-n lamnjr. , John Peterson, a New Albany: tantier, gashed bia throat with a knife, on the 11th Inst., with a view 'of suicide nflicting1 serious, but not fatal lnjuBenton' County Circuit Court lead s on the. granger movemcn','!havuig 'a granger. Judge, Clerk, s Sheriff, and nine grangers on regular panel of the petit juTy. ' i; '. '" "r A floating saloon on English Lake, is a eource ot trouble to the settles on the Kankakee, in Ilervey township, Laporte county.' Hunters, and trap pers are its best customers. , ' ) -Indianapolis is enjoying a fight be tween the coal sellers there and lhe Clay County operators, by which the people get coal from six to ten peats per bushel less than formerly." i'.. Trichinae. We reported seven cases of ; trichinosis- in our city last weekSince that time two of - those afflicted with the disease Mrs'. Beater -and Ilenry Thrcuart have' died. , ' jWc have no, - new ; cases. -Lawrenceburg Begister.'Feb. 12. s -zvy-rvv- : 1& ! well knowh Lafaye tte land O'irner. was recently fined for allowing Canada thistles to grow on his farm. Being somewhat angry at the jury on account of the finding, he "let out" at them, and was arrested for contempt.",, , ., ' Charles Wilson and Williani Bean, tln tnttr nnlv 11 veant 'of - nir' 'be came so excited in a snowballing bou at Stilesville, ' lhe other day, that knives were drawn and . Wilson .was stabbed in the abdomen. Bean is in jaii.-;;f ' r?:;;,,,f:i:1;? William lladley was arrested in Tipton last week on a charge of rape, preferred by Mrs.' Rachel Henryx who says , she, resisted so , long , as her strength would avail, and. then, know-? ing that the law would vindicate her, succumbed! " "V;i ' .- H " Tf 1 ."A 14 year old Lafayette girl fell' in love with a man at a baV masque last Thursday night, and the next day at tempted death by poison upon finding out that the object of ,ber . infatuation did not reciprocate her affections, and wonld have nothing to do with her Henry C. ! 3Iarsh Was crushed 'to death athis home in "Cass county on Thursday last. In driving out from under a low shed, he was caught be tween the roof timbers and his loaded wagon, , and his body :, was literally crushed, tearing out the ribs on one side ; and breaking the ; spinal col umn. ' : .' , ' A ruffian called at the house of Mr Baldwin, in Edwardsburg, last week and asked for a glass of milk,' which was given him. He then demanded a cup of coffee which was refused, when he became enraged, drew a revolver and shot Mrs. Baldwin in the leg. She procured her husband's revolver and shot at the man, but he escaped with out being hit . .;-u... ; f; ' The Ministerial r Association of Grccnsburg have issued an address to the clergy, urging them to use their influence in electing to office persons who are not only temperate in their habits, but who are also in , harmony with all proper legal measures for the suppression of intemperance, and ca pablc of serving the public faithfully in the several positions they aim to secure."; ;s.: : .-, A man in Warrick county, named Jenkins, hid' behind a stump a "few! evenings ago to frighten .his family with a hoodlum gong. : As the dulcet strains of the' instrument penetrated the family sitting room, a ' son of the musician, thinking the noise was from a wildcat, took a shot gun, and seeing something move behind the stomp, blazed away. Four doctors were some days engaged engaged in extricating something like, a quart of bird-shot from Jenkins, and ho don't propose to serenade- his family any more with a hoodlum gong.' ' ' ! ' ' i " ,."' ' Irving Barnett, a highly esteemed young man, residing near Pendleton attended a revival and became crazed from religious excitement. On Tues day last he drove his family , out of do-irc, demolished the furniture, and set fire to the house, which was burn ed to the ground. Through . the prompt arrival" of some neighbors who broke down the doors, Mr. Bar nett was saved from what wonld have been his funeral pyre. Several other converts in that section have, it is said, become enthusiastic to such degree as to imperil their minds. The price of : grass . seed, is ad vancing at Greenfield. It requires so much to seed David Gooding's cranial " plantation. New -Castlo Times. 1

ANECDOTAL FRAGMENTS . """ ' '- ; '"The most extraordinary mania pnbli life-wMJLohn Qumey Adaaos. Wise expjcssedf the truth as well as the general sense of " the House when he declared that Mr. Adams knew jnoxe than all the other, mew-.

bers put together. On being asked! ! to explain, he said he knew every t .1 a . 1 1 . tning mat any owey mem dot anew, and many things" of which "every other memberrwas ighorant J1 His knowledge was' moetexCensivew&f3 precise SnA luVmemoTy ismgularly MnKioiii. He never poke withw out commanding the' attention of the House, and he always threw a flood of light on the subject under, disenssion; but he was petulant and irascible in debate, sparing no one'' in his sarcasm and - denunciation.' The oldest hesitated about encountering a inan so thoroughly equipped and armed at all points.' Marshal of Kentucky, who was tort of Jmight errant thought to win lautels by ranning a course withthe old eentleman. .He prepared : himself with great labor, and came : into the House- with a long preambla,. reciting certain alledged delin- ; qttencieflCJof : Mr.' Adams, winding ; up with a resolution of expulsion. ' i H( made a very elaborte," able and - eloquent speech in support of his propoeilion. and the feeling of . the' r majority of the body seemed to be witn hhn. He was highly eompli ! . mented for bis brilliant effort,' and ; forV day tr twe he felt that his'sorgument was unanswerable. , . At the proper time Mr. Adams arose to reply. The galleries were ' crowded to suffocation, and the lob-' bies were full : " He commenced his ' speoch as follows: , ;;l"Mr. Speaker, when Warren Hastings had listened to the eloquent denunciations and powerful arguments of Burke, ' Fox, and Sheridan, he said that he .almost felt that he must be guilty of the crimes enargea upon . nun. jnow, sir. i nave listened . to arguments more powerful and eloquence more brilliant ' than over were heard in'j the House of Lords, and never for ' one moment did I feel myself guilty of the offence whieh the gentleman tr.-ii'A.. ' -ii ji : . nie?1' He "then proceeded with what was ;j?rqbably the greatest speech of hisiife. ..His vindication was complete, and the effort tremendous. ' Mr. MaxshalTs arguments were so riddled that . they seemed the: morest sophistry, and his disj ' play of historical - learning .was shown to be tne driveling ot a sopn- . omore. " Bio sucn eneecn naa ior- a long time been, heard in the House. , The immense auditory was electrified, and Itlarshall's career as a1 legislator came ta an untimely end. At the height of the controversy . about tho acquisition of Texas, Mr.Adams published an extract from his diary rehearsing a conversation . that took" place at the dinner table of Mr. Monroe, on a given day in 1819 in which General Jackson,' Don Louis do Onis. the Spanish Minister, and Mr. Adams took a , part. . The subject was the boundary line between Mexico and" the" United States, and it had a bearing on the "Texas . question.- General Jackson tberenpon published a let' tor in which, he said,, that without impeaching the general accuracy of Mr. - Adams, and certainly " with no intent t6 'call in question bis since-, rity or good faith, he must say that he was xaiataken in this instance' and for this reason, that at the time of - the alleged conversation at Mr. Monroe's, table,. Mr. Adams and himself were not on speaking terms; that this fact was' known to Mr. . Monroe, ' and therefore it was ; impossible that he should have invited them to meet at dinner. At this stage of the discussion . I meet Mr, Adams in the corridor of the " Astor house. He inquired: "Have you seen Jackson's letter?' -..."Test ., 'jrir, and I" ''was curious to know how you wonld reply to it"" ' "Come into my room and 111 show you. I have it here in my breeches '- Taking out a small pocket-book, he handed me. a note written in General Jackson's bold, unmistakeable hand, in which he invited Mr. Adams to dine with him the day: after they had met at the table ' of Mr, Monroe: " ' r ' " - Wl4 pitp Sill Do. . , If . Spain would secure a lasting, peace she t must do justice to.. the downtrodden, and remove the yoke of i tyranny whieh has galled the Cubans foe more than two - generations. She must place the native and the Spaniard on an equality before the law, and give lo the Cuban, the same-, right to rule as , the Spaniard. . She must break , down those social and political .barriers whichhave created a system of caste, almost as strong as the one exist-: ing .between master, and slave; in a word, she must show to the world thai 1 her sway jover. the; island is not alone for the purpose of enriching the Spaniard at the cost of the native, , , but , is just -and liberal enough . i to comprehend the wants off alb respecting their rights and protecting,. the .-humblest - native from the rapaoity of those adventurers whoy in .the name, of Spain, have been enriching themselves, by a political systein of plunder which has impoverished the native and driven him into armed resistance Unless . Spain is willing to accord justice to the Cubans no substantial peace, can be secured. If Spain desires to" establish peace in Cuba and to win the sympathies o,- the world she must- change her treatment of the Cubans. She must listen to the voice of humanity and put a 6top to the cruelties practiced in the name of loyalty. If the late proclamations are to be followed by , a fresh series of barbarians acts, it -will be a serious , question for the country to answer whether the interests of civilization do not require' onr active interference in behalf of the patriot cause, , .f u