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VOL. XIX. -NO. 28. SHELBYVILLE, IND. APRIL 2, 1863. WHOLE NO. 967

THE SHELBY V0LUIsTEER!LETTERi,ROM5URLOWWEED

&s paMIalMd crerj Thursday morning at SuuttoU) (Shelby County, ludiana, ty . REUBEN SPICER. TERMS: 01.50 .1 VE.1R9 INVARIABLY IS ADVANCE. 2,00, If aot pat ntil the rpi rati m of 6 month, If mot paid ntil the eipirmtion of the year IJTImm tcruu will be rigidly ailure4 to. RATES OF ADVERTISING: Jf f Ten 1id Nonpariel or ita equivalent in space con -MtMa a siare. 1 w'k ( 3 Wlm 3 ra's I m"s 1 H t.75 J 1,25 a.CH) t 00 -2 .(Hi 4.00 1MT T.OO I 10.00 column. oolnmn. 35.1tfl 7t rtn WTP Rati In the special notice column will be charged ye cent, in ad lition to the aoTe rates. All transient adrertisemenU moat be paid for In au7T7 Legal advertisements must fce paid for in advance, or g m responsible peron ni-rante the pavment of the same sa tratin. Iwt advertisements will e charged fifty stats a nuare for each inrtion. TT7 Announcements of marriases and deaths gratis. fuHr advertising rates will be charged for all obituary marks. TH" Announcing eandidaUi Tor office $2 always in adtnee. 0T A cUserpt'onary liberality will be extended to all atices of a rli?ious and charitable nature. TT-p Advertisers will be restricted to their legitimate mdnass. JOB PRINTING ! The special attention or business men, snd all others r wiring any species ot JU Printing, such as Cards, Circulars, Handbills, Posters, Blanks of all lcincls, Pamphlets, &c-, is callei to thd fact tluit the VOLUNTEER JOB OFFICE M bM refitted with a Full and Complete assortment of Plain and Fancy Job Type, Borders, lie, 9t lb Latest and Most Approved Styles, which, in the hands of competent workman, enable me to eswute any variety of Jot) Printing the community may ne pic:u iu wun, m .i tyU onsurpa-ssol for neatness, on short notice, and at prices lefying competition. A trial is respectfully soliciteil. An ample assortment of Cards, Cap, Letter, and colored aper always ou har.il. BUSINESS DIRECTORY. MISCELLANEOUS. Shelby Co. Auctioneer. HIVING taken out a license under the National Excis" Laws Auctioneer for Shelly County, I am prepared to atfrad to all business in that Hue, and hereby notity all rins selling at pu'dic outcry without license, except ne provided In said law, that they lay themselves liable to a penal ty of 9 00. Add rcsa ' JERRY WEAKLEY. Hhelbyrille, Dec. 4, IftiS. 0. H. CHA8K. A. C. DAWKS. CUilSE fc DAWES, WHOLESALE AMD RETAIL DEALERS IS JBOOTS V SHOES, Glenn's J31och, BAST WAS UIXG TO X STREET, INDIANAPOLIS, IND. Our assortment of Shoes, Gaiters, &e. for Women, Misses And Children is unsurpassed in the West. mrly PROFESSIONAL CARDS. MARTIN M. RAY, TIIO'3 W. WOOLKN. Shelbyrille, Ind. Frat.kliu, 1ml RAY & WOOLEN, CUtontcns at Cam, tXDIAXArOLlS, IX I. "WILL PRACTICE IX FEl'KUAL AND STATE COURTS. Oa or 4h otbi of them will always he found at thair moe.Noi. 10 . 11 K at Talbott'tBrnMing, South of I'ost OSeo. Nov.6-ly PHILIP LLKLEH, Attorney at Law, Notary Public, ASD . SEKERAL COLLECTIXG AG EXT. OOo. over Forl Store, rear of Mayor's OSoe, 1 SHKLBY YILLK, 1M. n. F. LOVE, ATTORNEY AT LAW, OflVc Korth-Wct cornr Pu'dic So,uare, orer Forbs' Store, SHELnWll I.E. ixn. Prompt attention (tiren to the collection of claims, inclu: diagSdMiers claims ior ltaunly Money and l'vusions. It. S. DAVIS, ATTORNEY AT LA AY, WAS1IIXUTOX D.V. Will prosecute Pensions, Bounty Lands, and all other claims aftaiust the Government. OrriCK, No. 30, LOUISIANA AVENUK. Hon. C.B. Smith, Secretary of the Interior. Ta a. H'rAaLAMD. j. lokolics mohtbomekt. 91'FAULAXD c noXTGOJIEHV, ATTORNEYS AT LA W. Will frfjctie in tb 4th and 5th J ndibial Circuits, and Commmm Pleaa CourU thereof, also In Uie Supreme and Federal CourU. Special attention riren to the collection of JftilM. Offtea orer Dr. Robina1 Drug Store, Shelbyrill Indiana. AKTU M. BAT, HAT A DAVIS, L5. r. DAVIS, ATTORNEYS AT LAW; Cfflcein Ray House, Shelhyrilie. JJPrpt atoeotion cirtn to Uj collection of claims. JAJIES liAititiso:, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Ofnet) orer TorbV 8 tort, RIIKLBY VII.I.K, IND. lUCUARD aOMUS, Couinty Surveyor, PAICLAND, tUELDY CO., IND. V. B. iMrmm mm t ralrUad, or Uaw rXert it US E

7he Eelatvxu of Horace Greeley vith the Rtldlion. Henry J. Ratmsnd, Esq. Dear Sir : In the response to the letter which you gave to your readers yesterday, Mr. Greeley says : "The personal assaults of Mr. Weed

! are of little consequence, because of his utter recklessness oi truth. He says, for instance, that I 'invitee the Cotton States to withdraw from the Union a lie that I, "in the darkest hour of the war, traitorously proclaimed that ve must put down the rebellion in sixty days, or make peace on the l.et obtainable terms' another liethat I 'conspired with Vail and igham' and so on to the end of the chapter. Ihe man 14 utterly blind and mad with hate of those he has betrayed and deserted." In proof of my charge that Mr Greeley "invited the Cotton States to withdraw from the Union," I oiler Mr. Greeley himself as the witness : From, the Tribune oXov. 9th, l?C0. "If the Cotton States shall become satisfied that they can do better out of the Union than in it, we insist on letting them go in peace. The right to secede may be a revolutionary one, but it exists nevertheless. We must ever resist the right of anv State to remain in the Union and nullify or defy the laws thereof. To withdraw from the Union is quite another matter ; whenever a considerable section of our Union shall deliberately resolve to go out, we shall resist all coercive measures designed to keep it in. We hope never to live in a republic whereof one section is pinned to another by bayonets." From the Tribune, JVbr. 23, 18C0. "If the cotton States unitedly andearjnestly wish to with haw peacefully from the union, we think they should and would be allowed to do so. Any attempt to compel them by force to remain would be contrary to the principles enunciated in the immortal Declaration of Independence contrary to tlw fundamental ideas on which human liberty is based." Fro?n the Tribune Feb. 23. 13G2. "Whenever it shall be clear that the great body ot the Southern people have become conclusively alienated from the Union, and anxious to escape from it, wo will do our best to forward their views." On the 9th of November, ISoO, Mr. Greeley not only vindicated the "right" of the Cotton States to leave the Union, lut eaid that he would "resist ALL coERCIAE MEANS TO KEEP THEM IN IT." On the liGth of the same month he not only said that he thought the Cotton States" fchould be allowed "to withdraw from the Union," but objected to the use of "force" to preserve that Union.' Ou the 23d of February, 1SG2, he declared that when the Southern people become "aliented from the Union, and anxious to escape from it," he would "do his best to forward their views." It will be seen, therefore, that Mr. Greeley not on! y invited the Cotton States to go out of the Union, but insisted that they should be permitted to go, adding that he "would do his best to forward their views." At whose door does the "lie" rest ? In one particular Mr. Greeley has kept his word. He has done "his bet" to get the Slave States out of the Union, and to keep them out. His great but banetul iniluenee has been potent in mutiny the South, and in dividing the North. Again, as to his raying in the darkest day of the war, that we must put down the rebellion in "sixty days," or. "make peace on the best attainable terms," I summon Mr. Greeley into court as a witness : "If three months more of earnest lighting shall not seive to make a serious impression on the rebels if the end of that term shall find us no further advanced than its beginning if some malignant fate has decreed that the blood and treasure of the nation shall ever be squandered in fruitless efforts let us bow to our DESTINY AND MAKE THE BEST ATTAIN AELE PEACE." Though ninety instead of sixty days were given the government to conquer the rebellion before "bowing to our destiny" and making "the best attainable peace," yet his argument was that the battle then imminent under the auspices of Gen. Uuinside would be decisive. II is language was that in the conflict then daily apprehended we must either "whip" or be "whipped," and if "whipoi" we we must "bow to our destiny." Mr. Greeley, however, did not abide his own time for his country's humiliation, for he rushed immediately into cor respondence with the French Minister and Mr. Vallandigham for "the best attainable peace." Finally, upon this point, Mr. Greeley's position is : First. He defeads the "right" of the Cotton States to dissolve the Uuion. Second. He declares that if thev choose to avail themselves of that 'right,' any attempt to restrain them would be "contrary to the ideas oa w hich human liberty is based." Tuird That he would "do his best to forward the views" of Slave State "anxious to escape" from tho Union. Fourth That if our Government, "AT THE END OF THREE MONTHS EARNEST FiGHTiNo," failed to subdue tho rebellion, its duty wauld be to make the best attaixacle teace. yow, I inert uaaeiiutinglj, that for

the expression of sentiments less disloyal

and unspeakably less mischievous, f for Mr. Greeley s disloyal utterances reached and influenced hundreds of thousand,) fifty men have found themselves in Forts Lafayette and Warren. His craven, treacherous signal thrown to the enemy. encouraging them to persevere fr "threo months," after which we should "bow to our destiny," will cost us thousands of lives and millions of treasure. It is known that, comprehending, as early as December, 18G0, both the cer tainty and the formidable character of the rebellion. I endeavored ; if it could not be averted, to at least narrow its bounda ries. On this point Mr. Greeley says : "Mr. Weed's personal supervision his editorial associates, even so early as the last of 1SG0, or the first of 18G1, having felt constrained publicly to dis claim all participation in or sympathy with Mr. Weed's amazing support of Senator Crittenden s so called Compro mise, which involved a surrender by the Republicans of the main distinguishing principle for which they had ever contended." I was earnestly in favor of a proposition which the loyal Members of Congress from the "Border States" agreed upon, and which would have tied those States to the Union, thus narrowing the rebellion to the Gulf and Western Mississippi States. And I as earnestly urged, in the formation of the President's Cabinet, the selection of two of its members from North Carolina and Tennessee, so that from tho Mississippi to the Atlantic, the Southern line of those States would be the frontier of rebellion. These two objects, with all the advantages resulting from them, were defeated by Abolitionism. For the long train of disasters and horrors that followed, to the bereaved widows and orphans whoso sables darken the land, and to the battered forms and the broken constitutions of the thousands who are to drag out their existence vitb out legs or arms, the Greeleys, Sumners, Phillips, &c., &c, are largely responsible. But Mr. Greeley dreaded as the worst calamity an "infernal compromise whereby the whole couutry, bouhd hand and foot, shall be delivered over to the accursed Slavo Power." And yet, what is Mr. Greeley driving at but an "infernal compromise?" What but an "infernal compromise" was the object of his letters to Mr. Mercier and Mr. Vallandigham ? What but an "infernul compromise" is "the best attainable peace?" Is Mr. Greeley demented, that he involves himse'f in such contradictions' and absurdities. I would not obtrude Mr. Greeley or myself upon the public attention for any mere personal reason. I follow him up because he has held and abused a mighty power. His teachings have diseased the popular mind. His journal has perverted the judgment and misled the sympathies of the nation. His insolence has shaken, and his threats paralyzed the army and the Government. It is time that an engine so potent for evil, driven by AMBITION', REVENUE AND FANATICISM. should be either "switched off," or deprived of its motive power. The New York Tribune, in first encouraging rebellion, in then aggravating its horrors, laboring steadily to unite the South and divide the North; and now, when courage and fidelity are more than ever needed, in demanding "the best attainable peace," has done quite mischief enough. The good and loyal men of New Hampshire, by "minding their own business," leading "new channels" and one-idea" speeches out of the canvass, have saved that State. The same measure of wisdom and patriotism will save Connecticut. Let such results, while they rebuke Abolitionism, also teach the Democracy that to be successful they must be loyal. When their opposition to the Administration carries them, as in Connrcticut, to the extent of sympathizing with rebellion, the people will not go with them. The party which, when its country is involved in war, falls into the error of the Federalists in 1814, digs its own grave. "Our country right or wrong," as given by Commodore David Porter, is the sentiment to which patriotism responds. Truly yours, Thurlow Weed. Corn Bread. Corn bread is a beautiful, nourishing food, and the cheapest diet that can be used in this country. Many people are fond of it, and more would be if properly made, which it seldom is. The following recipe will make it good : One quart white corn meal, two table spoonful salt, one table spoonful fine white sugar, one teaspoonfnl baking powder, three eggs. The amount may be increased in same proportion to suit the quantity required. Wet th corn meal with boiling water sufficiently to make a stifl dough, thereby scalding it thorough ly ; add cold sweet milk to reduce it to a batter ; then add the other ingredients and beat well ; pour it into well-greased shallow pans, and bake it in a quick or hot oven about thirty-five minutes. The cake, whm done, should be about one inch in thickness, and well browned on .both sides. The quantity of sugar may I be increased or diminished to suit the (taste. "Shortening," as some people I call it, should never be added. Good 1 bread cannot bo made if it is used.

Constitution and By-Laws of the Con

stitutional Demooratio Club of Addison Township. CONSTITUTION. Sec. 1. This association shall be known by the name and style of the Constitutional Democratic Club of Addison Township. Sec 2. All persons who wish to stand by the Constitution of the United States, the Constitution of the State of Iudiana, and all other written laws of the land not in conflict with their principles, may become members of this Association by subscribing their names to this Constitution, and the By-Laws which may from time to time be adopted by tho Club Sec. 3. The Officers of this Association shall consist of one President, two Vice-Presidents, a Secretary and one Re cording Secretary, a Treasurer, and i Doorkeeper, all of whom shall be chosen by the Members of the Association, at their regular meetings, and shall hold their offices for a term of four weeks. Sec 4. It shall be the duty of the President to preside at all the meetings of the Association to preserve order and de coruin, decide all questions coming be fore the house, subject, however, to an appeal to the house, appoint committees &c, &c, and generally to discharge such duties as are required of the presiding o nicer in deliberative bodies. Sec. 5. It shall be the duty of the Vice-Presidents in the absence of the President, to perform all the duties of that officer. Sec G. It shall be tho duty of the Sec retary, to do all the correspondence of the Association aud, together with such Committee men as may be apointed for that purpose, invite and secure the ser vices of such Speakers as may be desired to address the Association. Sec 7. It shall be the duty of the Re cording Secretary to keep a fair record of all the proceedings of the Association, and give notice of all called meetings, if any, and perform such other and further duties as are required of secretaries of similar bodies. 8. The Treasurer shall receive, safely keep, and as tho Association orders, dis burse all monies belonging thereto, and shall make, at the close of his term of office a full report of all his doings in the premises. Sec. 9. The Doorkeeper shall provide a suitable place for the Society to meet, see that the door is open for the members to pass and repass, and maintain the nec essary fires for the comfort of the mem bers, aud shall be re-embursed by the Association for any and all necessary ex penditures of money for their comfort and convenience. Sec 10. This Association shall have power at all times by a majority of the Members present at any regular meeting to make and adopt such By-Laws, as they may think proper, not in conflict with the provisions of this Constitution. Sec. 11. This Constitution may be altered or amended, at any time by the vote of a ruajoyity of all tho Members of the Association. BY-LAW'S. 1. This Association shall meet at least once each week, at the Court House in Shelbyville, or such othei place as may be designated by the Club, at any regular meeting, commencing at 1 o'clock P. M. and continue in session until they see proper to adjourn. 2. The Treasurer of the Association shall disburse no money except on order drawn on him by the Recording Secreta ry and signed by the President. d. The President and Secretary shall not draw an order on the Treasurer un less the appropriation has first been made by the Association, and their voto record ed on the minutes of the Record. Tho Yoar of Nines. The prest year, 1853, presents some I . . a curious combinations in resrard to tho s figure 9. If you add the first two figures togeth er, thus 1 plus 8 they equal 9. If you add the last two, 6 plus 3 they equal 9. If you set the first two figures 18 unler Go and add them together the re sult is 81, the figures of which added together, 8 plus 1 equal 9. If you substract the first two from 63 the remainder is 45, the figures of which added together, 4 plus 5 equals 9. If you divide the G3 by the 18, the quotient is 3, with 9 remainder. If you multiply all the figures togeth er, thus 1 plus 8 plus 0 plus 3, the re sult is 144, the figures of which 1 plus 4 plus 4 equals 9. If you add all the figures of the year together the sum is 18, and the 1 added to the 8 equals 9. If you divide 1863 by 3, the quotient is 621, and 6 plus 2 plus 1 equals 9. If you divide 1863 by 9, the quotient is 207, and 2 plus 0 plus 7 equals 9. If you divide 1863 by 23, the quotient is SI, and 8 plus 1 equals 9. If you divive 1863 by 69. the quotient is 27, and 2 plus 7 equals 9. There are other similar results. The year 18S1 will provide a great variety of similar combinations. The Memory of good and worthy actions gives a quicker relish to the soul than ever it could possibly take in the 'highest enjoy meat of youth.

Proposal Impeachment of Prosidoat

Lincoln. (Sj-ecial CorrteponJence of the Chicajo Tim.) Washington, March 15. I learn from a distinguished gentleman from IS ew York that there is a movement on foot in that city looking towards the impeachment of the President at the opening of the next session of Congress, in the manner provided by the Constitution. Tho movement originated with the most eminent constitutional lawyers of the couutry, including two from the West, and is in the hands of men whose character for decision and firmness, as well as for courage, is a sufficient guarantee that they will carry it through. Every intelligent man is aware that the crimes committed by the executive, and his utter inability to conduct the affairs of tha nation even in a time of peace, have furnished ample grounds for his impeachment ; and every true patriot will rejoice to learn that he is to be brought to punishment. The first draft of the articles of impeach't is already drawn up. It embraces charges which if proved against Queen Victoria would bring hr to the untimely end of George I. The English people would not have endured the outrages on their rights to which the American people have patiently submitted. No English lving would have dared to violate the English constitution as our President has violated tho Constitution of the United States. No question has yet come before tho Supremo Court involving the constitutionality of varios other acts of thi corrupt Congress, among others the conscription bill ahd the bill abolishing the habeas corpus. But such questions will soon arise, and, when they do, tho court will decide them to be unconstitutional. Indeed, the bill authorizing the President to arrest whom he pleases, and abolishing the habeas corpus, was never regularly passed by Congress at all. It was declared passed by Mr. Pomeroy (who tempo rarily occupied the chair) at o o clock in the morning, after a session that had continued all through the night. But, ut the time Mr. Pomeroy made that declaration, a senator who was speaking against the bill had the floor. And although he was doprived of the floor by the abolition ma jority and compelled to take his seat in violation of all parliamentary rules, still HE UAD THE FLOO lJ olll aml lie w&8 only deprived of it BY wrong. These facts will be proAed, and when tliey are established the supreme court will decide the act unconstitutional and void. Whenever, therefore, the President arrests any man under this act, or refuses to any man the habeas corpus under it, he docs t a so at uis peril. Following Good Advice. The follow ing letter is significant. It presents but one case of a thousand existing in all parts of tho State. The fathers and brothers of our brava soldiers are daily ... S .1 receiving letters trom tne army similar to tho one hero spoken of; and the good advice thus given will be followed by thoso.at homo who care for tho absent ones : Mr. Editor: I wish to say through your paper that I have a sort in the army, and I cheerfully give my consent for him to enlist, in order to put down the rebellion which existed in our midst. I will also say that 1 have always been a Republican, as have also my three sons who are at home with me. We have letters from my son in tho army, saying that "if yon conld see your first-born wading in the mud half-leg deep, with sixty pounds upon his back, with a nigger by his side on horseback with his gloves on, you would never vote the Republican ticket again ;' and we have taken heed to his advice, and we have all voted the Republican ticket for the last time. We shall all of us vote the Democratic ticket next spring. We are satisfied that the Republican rule will never bring peace to our detracted country. DANIEL ELLIOT. Ronfftey, Feb. 21, 1893. A". If. Patriot. Thomas Jefferson on Arbitrary Arrests. In the draft of instructions for tho Virginia delegates to the first Revolutionary Congress, drawn up by Thomas Jefferson, we find in his detail of guidance, his indignation thus vigorously expressed : "The wretched criminal, if he happens to have offended on the American side, stripped of his privilege of trial by peers of his vicinage, removed from the place where alone full evidence could be obtained, without money, without counsel, without friends, without enculpatory proof, is tried before judges predetermin ed to condemn. The cowards who iroulJ svjfer a countryman to be torn from their society, in order to be thus offered a sacri fice to Parliamentary tyranny, would mer it that everlasting infamy now fixed on the authors cf the act. She Had Him. An admirer of a prima donna, at Berlin, sent her lately two magnificent robes with a billet doux, in which he informed her that he would call upon her in the evening to know which of the two she had selected. Shortly before the appointed hour; he receiv'd the following answer T find the robes equally elegant, so that a selection is quite impossible. I shall, therefore, keep both, and you will have no occasion to call oa me.

Tho Horrors of Fort Lafayette Its

Terriblo Cruelty. An extract from a late speech of Dr. Edson B. Olds in the Legislature of Ohio, civing an account of Li experience at Lafayette : "Mr. Speaker, could there bo a military necessity, that at a time when & armed foe stood upon tho soil of Pennsylvania, tha President should send his minions into that State, and steal Dennis llaiek, a poor laboring Irishman out of his potato patch, and carry him in hi torn, dirty clothes, and crown! old straw hat, that had grown black with the sun of many summers, to Fort Lafayette, and keep him for weeks and weeks away from his suffering family? Was it a military necessity because the children of a man in Michigan, had raised upon a pole a rag through which they had been straining blackberries, and because some malicious neighbor had said that the rag was a secesh Hag, that the man should be seized by the minions of tho President and carried to Fort Lafayette, and kept for six months a prisoner ? Was it a military necessity, that Ken nedy and Baker should arrest the young and beautiful and accomplished Mrs. Brinsmade, and keep her for more than a month in solitary confinement ; and depiive her of all communication with her friends and relatives ; with none to attend to her wants and necessities, except the male pimps and spies of her captors ? Was it a military necessity, that when Baker, the libertine, with all his appliances of despotism had failed in her seduction, he and Kennedy, in order to screen themselves from the deep damnation their conduct demanded, should be permitted by inuendoes and insinuations to blacken her character? Was it a military necessity that, near the hour of midnight, my house should bo broken into by armed rulHans, and that with revolvers pressed into my ears I should be dragged out of a sick bed and hurried out of the State and placed in solitary confinement in a damp and loathsome cell in Fort Lafayette ? Was it a military necessity that I should be taken into a room where around mo lay in heaps handcuffs, chains and mauacles, and there stripped, and searched and robbed of my money, my watch. my spectacles, and even the medicine which I was using? Was it a military necessity that I should be deprived of such nourishment and drink as my sickness required ? Was it a military necessity that a sentry should be placed at my cell door, and for twenty-two days and nights I should be annoyed in my weak and nervous condition by his continued tramp, tramp, tramp ? Was it a military necessity that I should be de uied the use of a Bible ? Mr. Speaker, I must relate a scene that was once witnessed in Fort Lafayette, that I may inquire of gentlemen if it could be palliated upon the plea of military necessity ? There wero at one time confined in one of the prison rooms of the Fort some twenty-five or thirty persons ; one of these poor fellows was very sick, and hardly expected to live to see another day. When the guard came aronnd to lock up the cells, these prisoners begged that for that one night at least they might be permitted to have a candle in their cell ; and as monstrous and inhuman as it may seem, in this boasted land of liberty, civilization and Christianity, this request ras refused, and these prisoners were loeeked up in their dark prison-house with the dying man. All through that long dark night they could hear his dying moans ; deeper and still deeper grew the death rattle, until near morning, when all became hushed and still ; and when at last morning broke in upon that loathsome dungeon, death had done its work. That poor victim of despotism had ceased to live ; his released spirit had gone to thai land "WHERE THE WEART ARE AT REST. AXD THE WICKED CEASE FROM TROUBLING. " Indiana Cotton. A correspondent of the Cleveland (Ohio) Herald, writing from Mt. Vernon, Indiana, encloses a couple of samples of cotton, and says 1 I am happy to inform you that Southern Indiana is in earnest on the cottoa question. I am informed by a reliable man that the prospects are good for this county raising cotton enough for the whole State cf Indiana this season. I saw a farmer who xaised cotton twentyfive years ago, took the cotton twentyfive miles on horseback to a gin, and pail 82 per buhel for Pennsylvania wheat, and thiaks he certainly ocght to be able to raie cotton this year. I saw one gentletran who will put in ten acres. another twenty acres, and to on. i enclose to you two samples of cotton grown in this State the small sample in Jennings county, and the large in this county. I hope to hear that Ohio will do her share in flax Scratch the gtn rind of a sapling, or wantonly twist it in the soil, and a scarred or croo.ed oak will tell of it for years to come. How forcibly does this figure show the necessity of giving the right tendencies to the minis and haxu of the young.