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L rm rm VOLUME 33. PLYMOUTH, INDIANA, THUKSDAY, DECEMBER 5. 1867. NUMBER 14 PLTMOU WEEKLY DEMOCRA i ! : I t i i 4: i t i CilSPLYm PtTDLHTISD EVETtY TI1CRSDAY MORNING, AT PLYMOUTH, INDIANA. by j. Mcdonald. OFFICE, IXPZ-OFFIrFP,Un.DTXG. UPSTAIRS. 0? srWdPIIOS. $200 A TEAR 15 ASYAXCE. PiTTn"pf mn't'"1 mrl tnvnrHhly In a-lvanre. and tV o-r ;n "v.tt c.ie will b d'jronMrupd at the c-x-plruiö' ofth" t.5m-T-iM f-r, un!?5J a4rar.ee piymect W'B-iiiefr longer ru-rlM. ,,:,. Twn no.'riVr who jr-.t th"!r pirs Tiv the carrier will b cair-i.l twvnty-Sve cnt- a year extra. ADVERTISEMENTS wHl Inf ertod by special contract with the puV.Jst- CtmmnniCAtlon to promote private interests will be c?Trr?''fl art vf-rti?firif fits. Mim"" ami Peath am pnWvW s n?. Vw-i-'.-TA.nf.nr!-th- nrnnV-r of millions de ?rM U priud. vill bo continued till ordered oat, and charged at regular rate. BUSINESS CAKDS Modical. O. R. RFYXOUS J1 P.. rtyslcian m l S'trgron, won't! r-ipe:fullv Inform th" citizens c:Marha!l Conn tr that M3 prmanr.tly lotd in rivmoath. whore, h hnM hirnifin nadine to attend promptly an falth'nl'.Y to all c-.ll- r-rt:iinintohl.-profe-lon. OfUce and r-idnc. corn-r Michi .m and Washington St.. nuarly onpjsite th T.irfcer II o u TlSuTraO. DR. J. V. CnXFFR, Ute SnronorthclSth Indi ans Inf irtry. nflfcr hl professional services to t'.ie p" p of VTir-Oiall Connty. OHloe and rcNtil.-r.C". vrr-st 'U of Mkhin t.. thre blocks north of tho Parker Ilonse, riymonth. Indiana. l52' J. J. VlXALl, ITwnptW P?Jis-inani S--rrjeon. Far tenia? vent ion paid to ob-tre'ric practice, and dia- ofwomenandchildr. il. oa over BmwsIV tore. itsi(inee cppo-Kc iur v-.-. - public square, riyroouth, Inl. lia-M. PR. W. JACOB T, Fhytid-m and Surron. Ottcc ertr th potoCce. 13-11. DR. A.O. BORTOX. Suryoi Den't't, can be connlt-lathisoltr- every day except Mondays f.r.d Tuesday. OSe orerWe-tfrrclt's Stnr.'. riymonth. Ind. Attorneys. J. O. OTXOr.XF. A'ff.rr.; ' 7.w nr.-? .7:,',r rthf iViv.iiasretnomiM or.ee trtthpva'tsw-of MieWsm ! having torn the Archduk Ferdinand tre.t. on the Moek nxtnor.h of the Parfcer iIoujc j Masimill.in from relative his imperial whsr.hewnibepvdto se. thee Mand roval apostcdic majesty ha. the very t transact with hi. CoiWtmns nad nrd money 1 j . , . .,J J . . promptly rem-tt-d. Partt. nl .r attention given to the j natura! destro that the mortal remains of tttlemr.t of t.ntcs n-.-l sniMianship". W-K. j hia utju-rtunatc brother may find their A. C. CAPiOy, Af'--.r "y til X-'-try. and Licensed "War Claim Asri.t. will attend t" a'.l professional bni nets placed in his hand, promptly and care rally. Par ticular attention given tor iardian.di?p- and th" settle aitnt of decedent's states. Pen'n, bnr.'y and baek riymoath, Ind. 10 V). C. 77. RF-:YF. AHnT'i a' Imr nrrl V.'ir il-i'-m AjeV, Plymon ?h. Ind., will practice n Fr.lton. Stark. LaPortand Koscijsko. as well a Marshall, coantie. Collections promptly and etli.-icrtly ntt nd'd to. Care ful s.trtntion ?'van to proSste bnin-'s. Inair:inc cf- fscted ob PiTe and property, in the best rompanie in the rnif.! St.ites. tv'rial ater.f.n mid to th" rrose t;r.r, r.f of r,Mv -s . thi-widow ar.i h-irs .for i -,t .n-..r.nrMT notions and other cii -m-. ! w - . . ..... j w. . f - - -- Vottr ft Co.. Cincinnati. P.-i.-tly, She!don C-v. 11. T , Graff, 7imtt ä Co., Pittsl 'ir-. t 4- J. .c smrT, ntrl C :.V.-Ai-. continns to clve y-ompt attention to Collect-n? Claim. B "t of refer ences iTn hen repaired. T- nns moderate. 9-15. "Livery. TT.". FCU0FTE1. D.y w Livery and Teed Stable, Wrn. Sehofild. Proprietor, Cornrr Lnporte and Wal mt streets. Piymonth. lad. A sjdendid lot of hordes, arri. baie, Jtc, to b hired at all times. Pa- njrers eonreyei te, nt r'-j.art oTthe roiin'ryon raf-on- abla te ris. Call ar.d sc o;ir :e,c'.: before hiring. Mechanic! jrACOXWATrrXO.C. ni-lan-erJk Pro.'s, mana fstarrs of Waror. Ca rri a etc. r.'.acksmitliinp, pa'nfinjand jrair.inj done, to order. nrrntK gallfrt.-u. b. dicksov, second Coor, sonth esst corner of Corbln A Enon's blork, i prejsrej to take all str!. f.! pictures In the host cun ts. Tsrms reasonable. II I? M.M. FiLKt sr.. Operator. FAtTTTOXARLE 7AIMT11X1 FSTAP.LWnfFXT, er Davidson Ä Co.'s store. A!! kinds of work 'r. our Hie. dons in a snprior sty!- to any in the county, ar.d Inferior to none In ths north-west. Particular atten tion riven to Cut"ra Cutting. Plr-no nh. lad. i;-PVtf JAMES POttrE. Miscellaneous. MOM ET PrjEE AS TT TPrr if). 00 ACTIVE LO cal and Tr ivelinz Aer.t. M;le or Ferna', of ail are. -e war. 1 to o!'.Mt trade la evry City, Town, Village, riamV-t. Workshop ard Pa-tory, thron trhoat the entire worM, for tha moif a.alel,i. noveltie ever known. rm WAX C7.".V. PROFIT and iioy sale vnr.ntorrF:RrT)! Smart m -n an 1 women can Buk froTi ?" to ?.V) yr rh. ar.d no t: cf Ios ! A all card tal rcrjnir'. of from f yito il'Vi the more money invested the pra'-r th? pro.Tr. .Vo t?" y r" f'ref in a-trw cftrrt li', n ';.? :.? wir pay fiffsr'Cf li If yon ana!!y wish tr mike mrney spicily and eaaiW. write for fall particnbir" nnd addre MILNOR & C. (From Tarn.) l-Vyt 10. Broadwsy, New York City. GFOr.nr. .Vf-r r. nr-. Simp en,t sid- Michigan ttre et. oppoitc Branch Banlr, Plymouth, In I. nT S. J. IT. LQXfJ, l.icmt'l Aw'ior"r. will promptly at" ttad to tha aie ofoodi and chattels in M archill Coun ty. 11-tt-ly. CniCA'iO RARBFR WOP-Under Marks Jk Etar llch'a tor. ShaTin. Hair Cuttinrr. Phampooninj. Ac, d ne in the beit style. Particular attention piren to Djeins Hair and V.'hiskers. Tlie hiheit price paid for ladle's hair. A. nOLTZENDOIIFF. LIQ rORf.vurc LiiTors f.ir medicinal and ether Hirpose,. can b bad at mj itore, one door north of the Branch Bank. May IS. j. VAN VALKENBCTtGIl. Bank. Tht Plymojtb Branch Banking Co., (successors to the Plymoath Branch Bank of th(5 5tat cf Indiana.) open froai to 1 o'elock, a. m., and from 1 to 4 o'clock p. a. r.CRESSNEK, President. CTtmSKKR,Jr., Onahlcr. TO COSSl-MPTIVES. The advertiser, having been restored to health In a few wfeks by a imph remedy, after having suffered for tevera' years wKh a severe lan affection and that dread disease, consumption, fa anxious, to make known to his fellow nfferers the means of cure. To all who desire It be wiil o.nd a copy of the prescrip tion used (free of char-e), with directions tyr mepar Jnj and using the am?, which they will find a vre cure for Conmttrpnon, Ar.ur, chn, Orf-,and ail Throat and Lonz affection. The only object of the advertiser la sending the prescription is to bencflt the afflicted and pread Information which he conceirea to be InvalaabU M he hopea every ufferer will try his remedy, as It will cost them nothing, and may prove a Lies In?. Par tie wihin? the- prescription, free, by return mall will $JaMaddrww Iter. EDWARD A. WILSON. TI Wmimartmra. Kl.tja Co., K. T. jnyofdreA-ednr.dd:sabl'ds Miers proc.i-eü atren- CqU:,; earnestness, as likewise do all the onable rats. Deeds, mortrv.e and o,',.-written in- m,,l)crs cf iQ 'UUVCrh faiuil?. tmainrs n Ulr and onic'ulr drawn rp and aenowl- . ' J drment, taV n". CC.lect:oTs mnde and promptly re- T':c Cpcror. my ail-USt master, lias the mifed. omre over n. B. Dickr,r.'i hardware store, COnfi .ruce tnat the 3Iexican SOVCrntuent, TIIC OLD UOOK-KCCPCR. It was an ancient book-keeper, And he was tall and l'm. Though hi- fai'e was mil I. he rarely amilcd IIU clothes were dark and prim ; And everything about his desk lie kept exccvdiii trim. II' always htinj hi bat and coat Viv: th self-same hooks. And laid 'jis ruler, pen and ink In their rc?pectie r.ooks. And the only exercise he had Was footing np his books. Esch day npon the filf-sams hoar, Hi- took hi- loftv se.it. And Ik-lit his body and his zniad. His hbors to complete; And blot.- were neither on hia famo JTor on Lis ledger sheet. The raasicof his pen was heard From morn till eventide: Up columns vast hi- eyes were cast. Then down airain with pride ; (J-me pleased wa lie. though he paw his work Inm-ased and nialtlplied. The cash that o'er his f.njers came h'nch d iy was so .lethinz trrand ; And y.-t no schem .-s to bear it otT. Iy him were ever pl.unied ; A'.tliouch yoa saw with half an ey?. That ho wrote a "frloping" hand. II- had no wif he had no fiiecds. His joys and en res were few ; And his 'dearest ho;ea from d ly to day Was keeping his'halanee true ; A pood world this, if every man The latter thins would do. He rever -ihed when Utile Ills His way of life would cross : And o'er the errors of his youth lie sdinwd no vain remorse : But set down all tint cain along To profit or to loss. Oc d.iy the creditor of all Dropped in lor Iiis amount ; He !o:u;d the old man at his post, Thoujh low ran nature's fount; Tli' boolis were closed, and he was borno Up to his lat account. 32;ix!tt!!lau' Remains. The following the correspondence between the Austrian Minister Dcust and Minister Ler.Io a 'lYji-la, of Mexico, in' relation to Vice Admiral de Tegcthoff's Mission : COUNT IltUST TO THE MEXICAN MINISTER. Vienna, Sei.t. 25, 1SG7. K X CEl. f.LNCY. A premature deatli last repose neith the vault that covers the ashes of the princes belonirin'' to thr. house of Austria. The father, the moth er, and the remainiti brothers of the au KU.t dccea?e 1, .hare in this desire with an ii.stenin?; to sentiments of humility, wi'l not refu-e to mit:u'afe the just rief of his majesty by facilitating the realization of this desire. Tu that cn !, Vice Admiral de Teprcthnff hn.i been tent to Mexico Trith orders to address to the president a r.titinn fur th I I - - . .V. W.Xvt ucine: 10 u:i:i 01 me remains ot nis irn- no ria ! :ii:i i os t v ' hpTnr.! hin!,- -w ;r J J ---..-.w' .'iv.'i..w, uj iiiiib i tliov em Lc coiivevc! to I:ir:ri pirt, I am charged, in my capacity as minister of the imperial household, to re : quest tho kind interposition of your ex 1 Ou uiy cellency for the object of securing for .the vice admiral the authority necessary to that effect. I have the honor, excellency, of asking that you will convey, in anticipation, to tho chief executive the expression of gratitud; on the part of the august im perial family for the granting of this peti tion ; and accept for yourself the expres &iori of that same gratitude for the good oiTiees which you may have to perform. I avail myself of this occasion to pres ent to your excellency tho assuranc of my high consideration. Rfcst. Chancellor of the Empire and Minister of tLe Imperial Household. P.EPLY OF SENOR, D.E TEJADA. Dkp't for For f.i (i Atfaius, Mexico, Nov. -1, lr7. Excellency Vice Admiral de Teg etholF has delivered to me the note which your excellency addressed to uic on Sept. 25 last. Your excellency informs me therein that his majesty, the emperor of Austria has the very natural wish that the mortal remains of his brother, tho Archduke lerdinand Maximil;an, may find their last repo?e bentath the vault that covers the ashes of tha princes belonging to the house of Austria; that the father, the monier, am the remaining brothers of the deceased archduke share in this desire, as do likewise all the members of the im perial family; ami that his majesty, tho emperor, haying the confidence that the 3Iexican government will, out of senti ments cf humanity, facilitate the realiza tion of his request, has sent to .Mexico the Vice Admiral de Tegcthoff to solicit of the president permission to convey the archduke's remains to Europe. Fully impressed with the just sentiments set furth in your excellency's note, the president cf the republic has not hesitated to take measures so that the natural re quest of his majesty, the emperor of Aus tin, and of the imperial family, may be duly heeded and carried out with distin guished consideration. In accordance wnh the dispositions of the president I have made known to Vice Admiral de Tcgftthoff that the mortal remains of the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian shall be at once delivered to his care, in order to convey them to Austria, and thus accom plish the object of his mission. S. Lf.rdo de Tejama. To his Excellency Count of Reust, Chan- cellor of the Empire and Minister of tho Imperial Household of Austria, Vienna. The Taunton, Massachusetts Gazette says of Wendell Phillips: '-We heard him say, in an address delivered in this city, at a timo when he had no eulogy to spam for Abraham Lincoln, tTiat of the two men whom he would have preferred to see seated in the Presidential chair, his first choice was Andrew Johnson, and his second, General Rutlcr. And now Mr. Phillips is attacking Grant." Twenty-one Senators go out in 18G9, of whom fourteen are Republicans and seven Democrats. TJus far the Democrats havo gained two ind lost one in Tennessee. From the Louisville Journal. Tlicllcpiibllcan lar!y Expires by L.lmi(atio. Oftentimes when struggling with the most horribl perplexities of life, if wo can cain an interval for a little calm re flection the difficulties diminish by meas urment, and strength and courage grow into assurance of relief. Individuals are often lost in brief seasons of infatuation. It is not in the nature cf things that larga masses of people can continue in a state of infatuation indefinitely. Indeed, its duration is determinable by its very degree of recklessness and violence. In the whirl of the prolonged excitement of the American people, 't is no wonder that patriots have been at a loss in attempting to east a boroscope of the futuro, and have indeed at times despaired of the restora tion of republican institutions. lut we j have reached a point which permits a calm survey of the field before us ; and that survey excites not only hope but con fidence. We hardly think that we need have any new fears that-the- party of lawlessness will ever make the attempt to prolong its hold upon power by military violence. The result would be too terrible for them not to stand aghast iu their contemplation of it ; and their own fearful destruction would be foreordained frosi the beginning. There will be, during the fall and winter, all sorts ot mutterings, brags and threats. But the rapidly growiug firmness, of which we are glad to say we wee abundant signs in the right quarters, will choke all these mutttrings in the throats of the muttercrs. If our judgement of the na ture of iLcn is not fallacious, we shall go on through all the phases of electioneer ing excitement, aggravated by the circum stances of the day, up to a Presidential election. As to ths result of this, have we anj. reasonable cause to bo dispirited ? Ou the contrary, havo wc not abundant reason for hope, courage, constancy and confidence? Our triumph is sure if we measure the enemy aright; for there seems to bo no real strength in him. The Republican party nver had any real cxi.steuce separate from ''opposition to slavery." Upon that single idea it was born ; and it fattened, grew, became strong, triumphed, and rioted iu the ex cesses which we have all witnessed, and to which history furnishes no parallel. Hut it died of its own success. In its tri umph it parted from its very soul, all its soul. Its apparent existence since the close of .the war has been but galvanic, a trick of political electricians to retain possessio of their source of profit. Tt has not a claim to oiler fir the future support of the people that is not a barefaced address to their continued infutuatiou. Right here the glowing, the prophetic words of that sublime orator., Rufns C.hoate. deliver . .... . . . . . . , come burning up to memory. As one in- I sr.ir.!. In I his srinkft ? '"In r'irI r.i , - - . - - - o what they (the Republicans') are to do as a party, on any subject, human or divine, otitsiifr oj slavery, we know no more than so many men let down in so many baskets from the clouds. Slavery, they do say. they will oppose, right aud left ; but what other one maxim of gov ernment they will adopt, State or National; what one law, on what on subject, they will pass; what one institution or one pol icy of the fathers they will spare ; what one sentiment they will inculcate; what one glory they will prize; what of all that government can cau.o or cure they will cause or cure, or try to we have no more to guide us than ii they wsre an encamp ment of a race never seen before, poured by some populous and unknown North iroru her frozen loins !" As the Republican party loomed up in the analytic prescience of Choate, it 9tands nakedly to-day in the broad day light of history. What one policy of government did it propose? What. one policy dor a it now propose? What one 'institution of the fathers' has it spared ? What obc noble sentiment has it inculca ted? What true glory lias it prized? Slavery, alone, the radicals promised "to fight right and left." They fought it and triumphed. They abolished it for ever. It has no existence for them to make any more promises about. We need not stop to inquire whether their raid upon slavery was honest, or a wild party device. Nor will we stop to interrogate the future as to whether their success will prove cf bonefit to the negrc, to the white, or to the glory and stability of our coun try. They h:iy fulfilled their only prom ise. Their mission is ended. Thoir race is run. Signs are abuudant, and come pouring in from California, Pennsylvania and Ohio, that the dupes of their galvan ic battery of "loyalty" are withdrawing themselves into their own manhood. They can no longer follow a corpse as a leader, for it gives not one honest sign of life for tho future. And as the corpse cannot speak, and has nothing to speak about, to what motives will the manipulators appeal iu order to attract proselytes or intimidate patriots ? Wc shall seec Wc know that it is fashionable to ridicule "platforms," and the unreliability of pro fessions of political objects. Rut never theless, "platforms" must ever continue to be institutions in popular governments. Wherever the Rritish flag waves, candi dates must be questioned bj and immt de clare their policy to their constituents. So in Frauce. Nay, even rnoturchs find it essential to explain, from time to time, to t,,e reoP,e- It were idle to expect any pany 10 go oeiore me American people without a platform. It would be a con fession of weakness premonitory of sure and speedy death. Some little time ago it was largely felt that the nomination of Gen. Grant by the party in power would bo equivalent to success, with or without a platform. Rut at that time the arrogance of the Radicals vaulted over the non-committalism of Grant to the support of some one the most radical among thm. Times havo changed. So tho Radicals turn again, subdued, to Grant. Rut here again they meet the chango of time. Grant, without a platform, is an obsolete idea. The linking of no name with a past, howsoever glorious, can give a prom ise for the future. The linking of Grant's name with the platform of radical legisla tion for the pant two yeari would link him with policies and pledges for the future, that the country, from one end to the other, is rising up to condemn in advance. The Radicals can nominate no candidato who will not stand nlcdo-ed bv th vorv i nominations to these cardinal measures jj Manner on his new-fledged notoriety. lie Congressional supremacy, unbridled by 'enjoys the enviable distinction of being the Constitution, over all the departments the firat Iudiaua editor who has ever been of thclederal (lovernment and over the internal affairs ; negro equality every where by act of Congress ; negro suprem acy in the South ; no return of the South changeable overriding of the will ot dis- tricts to force radical preponderance in Cougress; iucreascd taxation and incrcas- ed expenditures ; payment of the rich with one kind of money and the poor with another ; tb.a supremacy of the military over civil law ; rejection of the Constitu tion and tho substitution of no liw for the law-makers ! Of these must be the plat form of the Republican, party. No chi canery can obviate it; no pretences hide it; nor can anything short of the sword prevent its most unqualified repudiation by an insulted and indignant people. It is but the galanized remains of a party which died by limitation. It stinks in the nostrils of the people, and its insult ing mockery of life shock sense, de cency, and all ideas of personal liberty and safety. Let the Democracy go forward, with hope, with courage, but with prudence, magnanimity, and sagacity, and the Con stitution aud State independence on all matters not surrendered to the General Government will be restored, and oar country will resume its once proud posi tion among the nations of the earth. face's Army. Flenry Ward Reechcr says, in the con cluding chapter of his novel : "He (the hero of the story) had part in the last grand battles, stormed Lee's lines, earned every step by despcrato en deavor, aud after every advantage, found Lee still firm, defiant, desperate. No one so well knew the incomparable skill and bravery of that now waning army of Northern Virginia as they, who for four years had fought it, and now, in the hour of it3 supreme disaster, were grinding it to powder rather than forcing its surren der ; and, when, at length, cut off from its lines of retreat by that lion of the bat tle field, whose lamping cavalry lay crouching aoross his only path; his artil lery gone, his trains taken or destroyed, his ammunition expended, hischief o'Lcors slain, or wounded, or captured, his men reduced to a handful, overwearied by nights, without sleep and days tasked to the utmost, Lee's army yielded, General Cathcart. and every other brave man, in their admiration felt that the hcroi-m of Lee's a. my was the only u.oasuro of tho perseverin bravery Df the army of the Potomac. 'These are not of another na tion, but our citizens.' Their mistakes, their evil caue, belonged to the system ur der which they were reared, but their military skill and heroic bravery belong to the nation, that will never ee.iso to mourn that such valor had not been ex pended in a better caue, and that the iron pen must write : 'The utmost valor misdirected and wasted.' " I'lurnK Ucdlvivutf. The Culifornian says the following sim ple and touching remarks and accompany ing poem have just come to hand from the rich gold-mining regions of Soaora : To Mr. Mark. Twain : The within person, wich I have sot to poetry under the name and style of "He Done His Level Rest," was one among the whitest men I ever see l, and it ain't every man that knowed him that can find it in his heart to say he's glad the poor cus is busted and gone home to the States. He was here in my early day, and he was the handiest mau about taking holt of any thing that come along you most ever see, I judge; he was a cheerful, stirrin crea tur, always doing something, ar 1 no man can say he ever see him do anything by halves. Prcachin was his natural gait; but he wern'ta man to lay back and twiddle his thumbs because there didn't happen to be nothin doin in his own especial lino. No, sir; he was a man who would meander forth and stir up somethin fur hisself. His la?t act was to go his pile on ''kings and" (calculating to fill but which he didn't fill), when there was a ''flush" out agin him, and natcrally, you see he went under; and so he was cleaned out, as you may say, and he struck the home trail, cheerful, but flat broke. I kiiowed this talented man in Arkansaw; and if you would print this humble tribute to his abilities, you would greatly oblcegc his onhappy friend. Sonora, Southern Mines, Juno, 18Cj. UK DONE HIS LEVEL BEST. Was he a minln? on the flat. He done it with a zet : W: Ii a lefldiiiu of tin? choir, lie done his level beet. If he'd a regular task to !o, ll never took to rcpt : Or if 'twas off and on -the same. He done. LU Urvel itt. If he wan preachinpr on his bent. He'd tr-ttnp from East and st. And North and Sttitii in cold and heat, Ho done hi level best. He'd cuss and ein?, and howl and pray, And damv and sinir and jest. And lie and ideal all one to him. He done hU level best. Whate'cr this man was sot to do. He done it with a zt ; No matter what his contract was. He'd do his i.kvel hbt. The Norwich (Conn.) IiulUtin says. "If Rrownlow was a Democrat, and civet ed to the Senate, we should all hold up our hand in horror at the disgrace, and point to it as illustrating the demoralized condition of the Democratic party. We consider it ten times more shameful in the Republican party to send sucl men to Congress than for their op ponents, for we have plenty of hotter men; the Democrats have not. Rut 1his i.s done, and is a disgrace. Let's own up to it, but not brag of it." A chemist in Magnolia, Tike county, Miss., has discovered a method of manufacturing a golden fluid for writing. ern ötates into tne union, Dut through t monotony of their lives with a boat ride sucb Representatives as rote tho Republi-' last Sunday afternoon, on the placid waters can ticket : arbitrary, treacherous, and j of the St. Jo-er h. After rowing as far as State Items, The editor of the Knighlstöwn Banner was reccntlj threshed by a uwell dressed man e congratulate the editor of the threshed by a well-dressed man." For tunate 11 ed " ! Two young men of this city varied the Pcnslow's island, some 2 miles above tho city, they landed, and finding a neat, gras- s? plot near the center of the hlaud, they whiled away the afternoon with a "euchre deck." When the settingsun admonished them that it was time to return to the citv, they proceeded to embark and would have done so, but for one little circumstance tho boat was gone. After vainly endeav oring to attract the attention of passers-by on the Mishawaka road, and not relishing the idea of remaining all night on the Island, they accepted the only alternative stripped themselves and swam ashore. As the shades of eve came slowly down, two young men "might have been seen" making time for this city at a pace that would have have astonished Weston, lie walked fur money and fame ; they walked to take off the chill their swimming gave them. It is to be hoped this adventure will cure them of Sunday boating. South Bend Iirynter, The Valparaiso Republican, of the 23th, contains a list of articles which will bo of fered " at public sale to the lowest bidder,' consisting of three or more ice cream freezers; a lemon squeezer; 1 yardi linen dirty; three dozen "cast-iron spoons, used for supplying water from the cisterns, to extinguish fires in the vicinity of the square," and fome other articles, belonging to the defunct fire company of that city (?) Query : If Valparaiso is in the flourishing condition represented by their papers, how happens it that a firo company cannot bo sustained there ? The funeral of II. L. Robinson took place on Tuesday a. m. The deceased, who was well known in this community, was a printer by vocation, and at one time, actively connected with the public press, having some years ago, published a county paper in Iowa. He formerly set type in his office for the Herald. Union and Ila ald. In nigging through the hill west of town, for the purpose of laving the track of the junctiou railroad, several pieces of decayed wood, resembling cedar, have been found, buried far below the surface. Some of the pieces were eighteen inches iu diameter. We have a small piece in our office which was found forty- three feet below the surface, although most of tho other pieces dif-covered were not found at so great a depth. The earth where the cut is being made is eompossd principally of clay, some of it very hard, and of a blue color. There is no native cedar growing in this section, and how this wood became buried where it was found will afford matter of speculation for the curious and scientific. Mussel bhelU have also been found in this cut, but nearer tho surface than the wood. Conner villt Times. Rurglara are reported to be actively en gaged in Valparaiso. One paper there reports four "burglarious entrances " in one night. A pretty good average that, even for Valparaiso. Rurglary.- The store of Mr. S. S. Will, on Rroadway. was entered last Thursday night by some unknown person or persons, and goods to the amount of seventy-five or a hundred dollars taken therefrom. No arrests have been mada. Miami County Sentinel. William Roose, of this city, has caught three thousand two hundred salmon in tho Ohio river, in front of the city, iu the pa?t bix weeks. AVio Albany Ledger. From the Laportc Union and Herald we Jearn that the masonic fraternity (Ex celsior lodge) will give a grand entertain ment cn the 27th ot this month, "festi val in the afternoon and dance in the even- MIT. Elder John Longly, a Raptist minister, well known in tho Wabash Valley, died at the residence of his son in Attica, lat Tuesday. Father Longly was in his eighty-fifth year. Three prisoners broke jail on Wedncs day of last week, at Columbia City. One of them was subsequently reeaptured. So says the Post Sad Accident. Mr. A. Shirley, was run over and instantly killed, on Saturday night last, near Atwood, by the night ex prcsa going east. Wttrsmr Union. The New Albany Commercial complains that milk so adulterated in that city as to produce a most nauseating compound, the smell of which is absolutely sickening. A young lady spiritualist, pretty, ac complished and eloquent, is enlightening the people of Tcne Haute. Tn a report of the public schools of Fort Wayne, just published, wo Pee it stated Jennie Wood, a little girl, has not been absent or tardy in three years. Rut few children can say as much. Kxchamje. In Monticello, recently, a man sold a tract of land for $5,900 payable in fifty-. nine annual payments of 5100 each, with 10 per cent interest from date. Tho Tribune says "If our principles do not hold up, we mut go down." Your principles ought to hold yon vp&t the end of a rope. Rev. S. Raker Wesley went from Lon don to the Fejeo Islands for a missiona ry, but when ho got there the" Fejceans impaired his further usefulness by eating him. Tlio Sfory of JLstococn. The great inemy of ths people is tLo After the capture of Troy by the Greeks, public debt. . They must strangle it or it iEneas, with those Trojans who had es-1 w'H strangle them. The point at which capel death during a long idege of ten j they must first direct their blows is tha years, embarked upon the Mediterranean j K'l interest-b?anng debt the five-twen-Sea, to seek a far off land, Italy. Without ie9- I1 isthe enormous gold iutcrest that compass or chart, and .even without any ; is devouring the vitals of the country, knowledge of the direction in which the ! V c. ra!lit kill tiat interest. It is that land they sought lay, for seven long years ' which calls for cra-hing protective tariffs, they were wafted hither and thither upon l x lhat which makes tea, c jtfee, fugar, the btorray waves. At length they reach- ves. ai lengin uiey reach - f Carthage, where JEueis , in a deep wood, his moth- is Venus, appeared to hitn, ed the coast of V W 0 landed. Here, er. the Goddess and pointed him th way to the Tyriau city where Dido reigned. P;lJ " d remain Ire. The beautiful young queea received the 'he moaeye 1 ari?t jcrfy scrcim hero with distinguished honor, aud that , themselves hoarse with the cry of repudi night gave him a great banquet in a hall , aiion. The pcop! will uot repudiate ; tut which vied in sphndor and maguificence j ley mean to pay, to pay ones, and no with the Temple of Solomon. When much j I5J,;'re- '7 Clc:u to Py "thoe bo Is in wine had boon quaffed from golden gb- l!c sam currency which the bond-holder lets, and the night was far spent in soui a'K bakers loit.c I the grernfuent. The and dance, the lovely queen reyacsfe 1 i I 'eoP'e haidthat the law of e!f-pre -.lüneas to tell tlu story of Troy, and bf j crvatiüa is t!l(Jir first duty. They will nis adventures upon tne sea. ivica', the' Tr ojan hcio, complied with her desire, and guilcd the morning hours until the be setting hours invited to sleep. " Among the many thrilling ileidents he toil was the following, which the great Lxtiu piet, Virgil, so thrillingly relate3 in his s?con 1 iEneid, and of which we present the fol lowing translation : " Laocoon, ordained Neptune's priest by lot, was sacrificing a stately br.Hoek at the altars setapart for thatsohmnity; when o ! from Tenedos, (I shudder even at the re - lation) two serpents, with orbs immense. stretch their lengths along the smooth sur face of the sea, and with equal motion shoot forward toward tho shore ; whw.-e breasts erect amidst the waves, and cheats bedroppe l with blood, tower above the flood; their other parts sweep the sea be hind, aud wind their f-pacious backs iu rolling spires. Lashed by their strokes the floods resound, the briny ocean foam ing. Aßd now they reached the land, and darting fire from their glaring blood-rd eyes, with forked tongues licked their hissing mouths. Half dead with the hor rid sight, we fly in different ways. They, with resolute motion, advance toward. Laocoon ; aud first both serpents, with close embraces, twine around the little bodies of his two sons, and, with their cruol fangs, mangle their wretched limbs. Next they seize the priest himself, as he is com ing up with weaponstohis boys' relief, and bind him fast iu their prodigious folds and now grasping him fat twice about tho waist, twice winding their scaly backs around his neck, they overlap him with the head and lofty neck. He strains at once with both hands to tear acun ler their knotted soircs, while his holy fillets are staiued with gore and black poison ; ut the same time he raises hideous shriek to heaven ; such bellowing as when a bull hxs fled wounded from tho altar, and ha eluded with his neck the erring axe. " Painters and sculptors have essayed with remarkable success, to present cn canvass and in marble this story of Laocoon strug gling within the relentless foldofthe ser pents. We have stood for an hour, with mingled feelings of horror and admiration, before a statue ropre-enting the frightful scene. In vain was the poor victim, with eyes starting from their sockets, and with knitted muscles, working with a giant's strength, striving with tha energy of des pair to relieve his crushing body from the ever tightening coils. Not one feeble ray of hope could you read in that terror-stricken countenance. We have uot taken th pains to recount this old story of Laocoon without a pur- pose, ine langer m wnicn the old priest stood when the fierce serpents were darting over the waves towards where he stood. lashing the ocean into a foam, the din ger in which the ma-sea of the people of this country stand to-day. i wo serpents, far more terrible and deadly than these that shot cut from Tencdos, have landed upon our shores, and are already winding their mortal coils around the body politic. Their names are debt and taxation. If the people act with promptness, energy and decision, they may yet save themselves from the fate of Laocoon; if they hesitate or despair they arc totally lost. There can be nc truce, n compromise between the people and these deadly t-er-p?nts. If debt and taxation triumph, then will the people- of the United States become the impotent powerless serfs ar.d slaves of a moneyed aristocracy, ss in Rußland and Ireland. The battle between the people and these monsters must be commenced spcediby, and waged energetically and relcut!ccs'y. Day by day the c ils of theso serpents are tightening about u. Soon our powers of resistance will be gone. The secretary of the treasury has been deluding the coun try with the idea that the debt w.i dimin ishing. Yes, it has been diminishing, as the serpent diminishes its length whet; he Coils himself to strike a deadly blow. The non-gold interest-bearing debt has been diminishing; but with what frightful rapidity has the gold iuteret -bearing debt been increasing. Rut a few months ago the gold interest-bearing del t was but $1,000,000,000 calling for but nxty mil lions of gold interest a ye.r. It now nearly $1,800,000,0:10, calling for SRS, 000,000 from the treasury to pay the in terest. In a very few months more it will be SL'200,000,000, calling for $1:12,000, 000 of gold interest. The moneyed au tocracy, the banking and bond-holJing classes, aro exerting all their powers to swell this gold interest-bearing dcht to $3,000,000,000, and when it shall have reached that point, tho people will be as powerless in their hands as was poor old Laocoon in the folds t f the serpents, after his arms and neck were within their coils. When the debt shall have attained to this frightful raaguituJc au l it will have reached it within twenty months, un less the people shall have previously ob tained the mastery the holders of it, as in England, will absolutely own and con trol the government, the army, the navy, together with all the moneyed power cf the country. The people ill then Lave become mere pack hordes and besti of burden. All power of resistance will be gone from them, and their fate will betht fate of the foiling masses of England and , Ireland. ' an 1 cioti.ia-' so dear. Let thcc fire- j est n,lust be stopped. The people cannot J " ir:jI''g io.n uie it:e oi jaoc-on, j rvill not be crushed by a national dobt. j 'unjor Dc:n,crat. 'risIitlHS' for a Government." If it were n..t f )r the awful trg2y,thi half mülion of tho "young and brave" now lying in bloody grave?, and perhaps the still more awful trage ly looming dark ly in the disfan?-?. the whole " ciriiiM-1 t world " should roir with laughter over the j northern aspect of the -great American ! conflict, " as Iljrr-.r Greeley calls it. i .cy iougn: lor a government, forsooth I It was the cotistiut cry of a certaiu set, who wantel to sec '"it'we re iüvhi l a a gov ernment," and a-.'ta rope of sand, such as 44 Old Ruck" considered it, they sa:J. Weil, since the d iy of King Stork, tht re has been no instance where f eds have been so fully grat'Ced; indeed, they have vastly more than even they bargained ilr. They have a "government" that, in the first pl ice, has a standiug army in times peace, that costs more than the '.vyrst of the old military monarchies of Europe, ar:-J quite as much as our former domocr.ttii; administration aliigether. Thou their government, they sj fiercely chmarcd for, has probably doublt: the civil employes of a iy European government ; and finally, it takes at least half the entire surplus "pr duction of the wh j!e country t? ut it ; indeed, it may be said that" it is a mere agency or machine of tho 1. on J -holders for plundering the rroduein c!a. 03 of the. results of th(ir annual labor Rut it is vastly w. rse thin even this. The government, the thing, machine, whatever wc may c'l it, is an instrument owned or used in partnership by the U nd ho. dors and the abolition lunatics used by the first, to rob northern laborers, and producers, and by the litter, to" ref.rm" the work of G od and make a new will vhere white and ncjre.es aro to be c jual. This " Rrlle alliance" of 1 o-.-M.oblers at.d . l'inat;es im.; iko A ..T J impiv r.d: on. Ly-;.es (.irant, Sherman H ward & Co as t!i?ir tools or employes, to collect the nonhtru tax, and accomplish the " ieeot. structicn" of the natural world iu the south. Heaven and earth, what a specta cle ! Why, if the northern people ha 1 fought for fifty years and sacrificed mil lions of lives to prevent such a raoar'trositv as this, posterity w,.u!l have blessed them .ore vor. And at this moment, if the peo ple of the states were to r:se up and anni hilate it at ence. and thus release them selves from a taxation so enormous, and en able industry ari l order to be restored in the south, it would be the most transcend ent good to humanity, to progress, civiliza tion and human happiness ever knovtn in the history of mankind, and compared with which Magna Charta, the Reformation, or the discovery of America, sink into insig nificance, Rut cjuragc and patienc;! the democracy will dig cut from this hor rible dobris, und restore the true govern ment of America, sooner or later. AVl? I'-rh Djy.BoJ;. nomocracy ant! Low Irlrc-s. Ever siuce the democrats began the vic tory buines there hts Wn a steady de cline in prions, which i co-itrarv to afl tho predictions of what would be "that were made by the radical prophet before the elections. (I old has tumbled down from llä to and dry goods are so Lw that it des n -t c t much m ore to dress now -ban it did before tho war. At the cloth- iriir house-; on Rroadway and the Ilowery u imy suits, good and bad, almost as cheap as they were five years ago, and in every bui:ies street pile's of drv goods t'ckete 1 fi..m fit) to Pel per cent' below the price askc 1 fur the same goods iu ISO.). Ca!uvt-s at PJJc a yard ; musüns !0 to lo ; delaines at le ; dress ir Is from 1") to :') c, :ln 1 all kind of costlier fabrics tt prices that indicate a heavy l-fs to k me one. The decline is severely felt by imp. rt ers, j.d-bers and agents, and somecf them are out of pocket to the tune of $.0.n) to S-T'O0ij by it; but it is vry advanta geous to the working classes, fir it enable them to make a dollar go a far in dress as two went Iat year, tiroecrie and rents are still hi-b. but with these excep tions it is much cheater living in New York now than it lias been for three or four years. And iu L'in- bv the number of houses going up, there ought to be a sharp decline in rents next vcar. If we continue the vietory business next fall, I expect to sec pnefs very near the old standard soon after. It may be hsrd on the speculators, but ajttey'arc find of grinding other people, it i" onlv fair that their own faces should feel a touch i f the stcne. Xck Turk eoncrt evdencc Bes ten J-st. A specimen of the ''horse talk" most disgusting to ra licals is exhibited when they ask T.rant if be endorses their views, and fJrant rej lies neigh. One of the Ronton churches has net been lighted siuce the general illumination The Grant Clubs of Philalelt hia have ocarly all JechreJ f -r Secretary Stantoa fcr Vic? President. ; a ,A y11"-, c.car. jiC: ince ure- ! twenties be paid, y-s, paid, lawfully and Intimately, in greenbacks, as fast as they i become due. This enormous g. l iuter-