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THE RICE
"BE
VOjL. XXXIX.!
Charity.
j Charity; but the greatest of these U Charity."
If we knew the care and crosses
Crowding round our neighbor's way ;
If we knew the little losses,
Sorely grievious, day by day,
Would w then o often chide him
For his lack of thrift and gain ;
Leaving on bia heart a shadow
Leaving on our lives a stain 7
If we knew the clouds above us,
Held but gentle blessing thero,
Would we turn away all trembling.
In oar blind and weak dispair ?
Would we shrink from little shadows
Flitting o'er the dewy grass.
If we knew that birds of Eden
Were in mercy flying past T
If we knew the silent story.
Quivering through the heart of pain.
Would we drive it with our coldness
Back to haunts of guilt again ?
Life hath many a tangled crossing,
Joy hath many a break of woe ;
But the cheeks, tear-washed, are whitest.
And kept in life are flowers by snow.
Let us reach into our bosoms
For the key to other lirea,
And with love toward erring nature,
Cherish good that still survives ;
So that when our disrobed spirits,
Soar to realms of light above,
We cnay say "Dear Father, love us.
E'en as we have shown our love."
The Last Dollar.
He gave it to his wife with a sigh, .yet
with a look of resignation.
'It is our last dollar,' be said, 'but
the Lord will provide.
The Rev. James Spring was minister
in the little mountain village of Thoin
ville. He was poor, and his congrega
tion poorer. Often before he had been
very near his last dollar, but he had
never actually got to it until to-day.
'So you've been always saying, sob
bed his wife; 'but what is to become of
us when thi9 is gone? They won't trust
us any more at the store, and your sala
ry won't be due for three weeks, even if
you get it then. Why do you stay here
when the people are so poor?'
'I have no other place to go to ; nor
money to travel to it, if the Lord open
ed the way. My work for the present
is here. Ho feedeth the young ravens ;
He will surely feed us.
I wish I had your faith, but I haen't
and it won't come to me. Oh, what shall
we do,' and she wrung her hands do-
spainngiy. 'My poor cuuaren.
'Once I was young, and now I am
old,' solemnly said her husband, speak
ing in the words of tho psalmist, 'yet
never have I seen the righteous forsak
en, nor his seed begging bread.'
As if in answer to this pious ejacula
tion, there came a sudden knock at the
door. All the while the minister and
his wife had been talking a storm had
been raging outside. On opening the
door, a traveler quite wet through en
tered. 'I was coming through the forest from
Maryville, he said, 'and ventured to
stop at the first house I saw. My horse
is in the shade. Do I take too great a
liberty?'
'Not at all,' answered the master of
the house. 'We have but n poor shel
ter, as you see ; there is a good fire at
any rate.'
For it was in the kitchen whero this
conversation took place. Indeed, this
humble house boasted no parlor, and
the kitchen was dining-room, drawing
room, living-room and all.
The stranger proved lo be a man of
education and intelligence, and in con
versation with him, the minister forgot
his trouble, and was reminded of his
earlier and brighter days, when intel
lectual companionship had iiot been tho
rare thing it was now, among these
hills.
At last the storm abated and the
stranger arose to go. His host accoms
panied him until he disappeared behind
a turn of the road.
'See here, James,' said his wife eager
ly, when he returned to the house, 'I
found this on the table near where the
gentleman sat.
It was a fifty dollar greenback, wraps
ped hastily in a bit of paper that looked
as though it had been torn from a pock
et book, and on the inside of the paper
was written the verse of the Psalmist,
which was now apparent the traveler
had overheard.
'I thought he was writing the direc
tion he asked for,' said the minister.
'He means it for us. Thanks be to the
Lord! Did I not say, my dear, he would
provide?
His wife burst into tears.
God forgive me, she said, 'I will
never doubt again. The Lord surely
sent this stranger to our aid.'
'And He will still provide,' replied
her husband. 'Whatever my lot may
be, here or elsewhere, in Him I trust.'
A month after a letter, a rare event,
came to the 'Rev James Spring. It was
as follows :
Rev. and Dear Sir: The church at
Maryville has unanimously called you
to its pastorate. The salary is fifteen
JUST AND FEAR NOT! LET ALL THE
RICHMOND, WAYNE CO., IIVD.,
hundred dollars and a good parsonage
house.'
The letter concluded by saying :
'The writer of this first came to know
you by j'our hospitality to him during a
storm a few weeks ago. He overheard
you in a moment of great distress,
speaking with such full faith that he
feels you are just the person for this
charge, and on his recommendation this
call has been made.'
Maryville was the county town, a rich
and thriving place in a broad and fer
tile valley, at the foot of the hills. It
was a for fitter sphere of labor for him
than the wild village in the mountains.
So a young man as yet without a fam
ily took the missionary church among
the hills, and the Rev. James Spring ac
cepted the call.
But he does not forget the past, and
often when people show a want of faith,
tells them the story of his Last Dollar.
Mark Twain thus mourns over Ad
am's grave : 'The tomb of Adam! How
touching it was, here in a land of stran
gers, far away from home and friends,
and all who cared for me, thus to dis
cover the grave of a blood relation.
True, a distant one, but still a relation.
The unerring instinct of nature thrilled
its recognition. The fountain of my
filial affection was stirred to its pro
foundest depths, and I gave way to tu
multuous emotion. I leaned upon a
pillar and burst into tears. I deem it
no shame to have wept over the grave
of my poor dead relative. Let him who
would sneer at my emotion close this
volume here, for he will find little to
his taste in my journeyings thro' Holy
Land. Noble man he did not live to
see me he did not live to see his child.
And I I -alas, I did not live to see
him. Weighed down by sorrow and dis
appointment, he died before I was born
six thousand brief 3iimmer3 before. I
was born. But let us try and bear it
with fortitude. ' Let us trust that he is
better off whero he is. Let us take com-
lort in me thought mat nis loss is
our eternal gain.'
Recently a bag containing a cat and
kittens was left on the door step of a
Mr. Hamer in Coldwator county Mich.,
and, a few evenings after, another bun
dle was left in the same place. Suppos
ing it to be a repetition of the previous
prank, Mr. llamer took it and, without
opening it, threw it into the St. Joseph
river, which flows near his house. His
wifeK feeling somewhat apprehensive
concerning the bundle, went and fished
it out of the river, when her worst fears
were realized, for it contained the body
of an infant child, apparently about 18
hours old. Pinned to its clothing was a
five-dollar bill, and a note addressed to
Mr. Haiaer's people, telliug them to
bring the child up in a Christian like
manner, and they would receive their
reward hereafter.
A Washington correspondent of the
Ohio State Journal relates the following
of a member of the Thirthy ninth Con
gress, General Harding, of Illinois :
'lie was more persistent, though less
demonstrative in his opposition to lav
ish appropriations than E. B. Wash
burne. But on one occasion Gen. Har
ding was observed voting squrely with
the monopolists for some scheme or
other, thus practically contradicting his
proclaimed theories. Some one pri
vately questioned him on the floor of
the House as to this inexplicable pro
ceeding. Pushing his abrupt body and
not ravishingly handsome face toward
his interrogator's ear, he said, in sotto
voice: 'I have some eggs in that bask
et.' "
The Connecticut Tobacco Crop.
Growers of tobacco have begun to cut
the crop for 18G9. It has grown and
ripened at a very rapid rate during Au
gust and some fields were cut as early
as the 20th. It promises to be a good
one. Cert dnly it will be a good one as
to quantity, in the vicinity of Hartford,
which is the center and best locality for
seed-deaf. The Hartford Times says :
IJow it may be in towns north of Con
necticut we know not. Here the most
and best tobacco is grown, and here the
crop, though unequal, even in the ad-,
joining fields, is one the whole a very
fair one in quantity. Its quality is yet
to be determined. It looks well. Com
plaint is made in some quarters of 'big
veins' again ; but we judge this will not
be general. It is yet too early to form
an opinion regarding the general quali
ty and value of the new crop.'
The city of Rome, has 220,532 inhab
itants; of whom 7,480 are priests,
monks and nuns.
The fourth anuual convention of the
journalists of Germany met at Vienna
July 24th.
The Baptists of Germany have in
creased to ninety six churches and o
ver 17,000 members.
French ladies are made perfectly
beautiful for twenty francs, warranted to
last eix weeks.
ENDS THOU AIM'ST AT, BE THY
Indiana Items.
There' are 3,319 school children in
Richmond, of whom 137 are colored.
A few days ago, in Jeffersonville,
Mrs. Edward J. Wilson, attempting to
light a fire with coal oil, was seriously,
if not fatally burned.
There was a mistake in our announce
ment of the Dearborn County Fair, at
Lawrenceburg. It begins Sept. 14, and
ends on the 18th.
Jeremiah Cox, aged eighty-two, a son
of one of the founders of Richmond,
took his fifth wife recently at Whitewa
ter Friends Meeting, in-the person of a
female Friend' of sixty.
The Lexington Enterprise says :
Married, on Wednesday last, after a
vast amount of trials and tribulations,
by 'Squire Duffield, Col.Jtobt. M. Fos
ter and Mrs. Sarah Hughes, all of this
place.'
The Crawfordsville Journal says :
The frequent rains which we have had
during the past week, combined with
the warm weather, are having a very
desirable effect on the corn crop. Far
mers predict a good yield.'
The Evansville saloon keepers have
organized a society for their protection
against prosecution for violating the
Sunday law. They say, 'The prosecu
tion of the liquor dealers for selling oa
Sunday was shameful and mean.'
A few days ago robbers broke into
the Marion Postoffice, and took some
two hundred letters. The letters were
found scattered around, everything of
value to the thieves being taken out.
As far as known, they only got 25 cents
in monej'.
The Kokomo Tribune says : 'A gen
tleman of truth, who came here on Tues
day, from Peru, stated to us that a wo
man, at that city, had recently given
birth to six children, that the woman
died, also one child, and that five chils
dren were still living. Our informant
believed the story, but we do not.'
The New Albany Commercial says:;
'The rains of the latter part of last week
and on Sunday of this week, have been
all that was needed to. insure a good
corn crop. The corn is now most prom
ising in this section of the State, and
the yield will be as large as last year.
Late potatoes, cabbages and turnips will
also be greatly improved, and will turn
out a fair crop.
List of U. S. Patents issued to citizens
of Indiana, for the week ending August
31st, 1869:
Button or Stud John B Carter, Ilarts
ville. Marker for Corn Ground Oliver H.
Catey, Williamsburg.
Process of Preparing Wood Fibre for
Paper Stock, George E. Marshall, Lau
rel. Rack for Sugar, Cream, Salt, &c
Mary Ann S. Mullin, Osgood.
Extension Table Slide Otis E. San
ford, Laporte.
Crout Cutter John G. Schwarz, In-
dianapolis.
Evaporator Adam W. Schidler, S.
Bend.
Clod Fender Dan'l Applegato, No
blesville. Tank Regulator James M. Crose,
Lebanon.
Axe Alden H. Jumper, Sunman.
Evaporator for Sugar and other Liq
uids Thomas and James M. Scantlin,
Evansville.
Planter and Cultivator Nicholas
Whitehall, Newtown.
Plow James C. Bell, Lebanon.
Corn Planter J. A. Johnson, Pen
dleton. Cultivator Elisha Walker aud Jo
seph J. Piatt, LaPorte.
Reissue of patent dated Nov. 13, '66
Wheat Drill, James F. Harcourt, Mos
cow. Tippecanoe county has voted for a
subscription of stock to the LaFayette,
Muncie and Bloomington Railroad to
the amount of $373,000. The vote stands
for the subscription 3,163 against 2,
527; majority for the subscription, 606.
The heaviest vote against the subscrip
tion was in districts outside Lafayette.
Thistles. A law of the State makes
it imperative on farmers to cut down
and destroy thistles, nettles and noxious
weeds in front of their farms. This law
is disregarded by many, and this fall
and winter these hurtful plants will
scatter their millions of seeds in every
direction. Cut them down by all means.
Rev. P. J. R. Murphy, a well-known
Catholic priest, late of Iowa, but form
erly of Illinois, while attempting to get
on a train of cars at the crossing of the
O. & M. and E. fc C. Railroad, near Vin
cennes, on the 31st ult, fell between the
cars and was run over and killed. He
was on his way to Washington, Ind.,
where he has relatives living.
The Democracy have a new reading
of the proverb : 'Put not your trust in
princes; it is now rendered: 'Democrats
should never put their trust in Union
soldiers.' The Union soldier, General
Rosecrans, never struck the rebels a
harder blow than he did their friends in
his letter, declining the nomination for
Governor in Ohio, in favor of freedom
and the public faith.
PALLADIUM
GOD'S, THY COUNTRY'S AND TRUTH'S!"
SEPT. 14, 18G1.
From the New Albany Commercial.
That Bad Man, Morton.
Governor Morion wa3 requested b'
the Republican Central Committee of O.
to open tho canvass in that State. He
opened it, and closed it too, at Wilming
ton a few days since. His single speech
came down on the moribund "Democra
cy like a trip hammer. He exhausted
the sybject and the Democracy at the
same time. All the speeches that will
be made during the remainder of tho
campaign will be but repetitions and
elaborations of his arguments. No won
der the New Albany Ledger is shocked
into momentary horror at 'that bad man
Morton.' It was bad, it was cruel, per
haps it was wicked, in Governor Mor
ton to smash the Democratic bladder
when he might as well have punctured
it artistically and allowed the thing to
float yet a little longer down the stream
of politics and time.
It is a fashion Governor Morton has
in opening campaigns to tersely, clear
ly and explicitly state the issues, and
then, with logic so compact and unans
werable as to compel assent from all
unbiased minds, absolutely demolish the
sophistry of the opposition. His last
word closes tho argument. No room is
left for demagogues to wriggle in when
he has concluded. Vague and indeter
minate phrases do not befog his argu
ment, leaving opportunity-carping dem
agogues to air their rhetoric on.
Governor Morton has another bad
habit. He will not forget the past rec
ord of the Democratic party. He will
not allow the people to forget it. Time
is a wonderful anodyne It soothes and
softens the bitter memories and harsh
recollections of the past. Much of the
past, it is true, should be forgotten,
but much of even its miseries should be
remembered by this people forever. If
the Democratic party would have us bu
ry the past, why does it, hyena-like,
crawl out at night to snarl over the
graves of our dead Union soldiers ? If
it would bury the past, why will it ever
parade its putrid carcass on the recur
rence of each campaign, revisiting the
glimpses of the moon and making both
night and day hideous ? Of all things
above ground nothing so much needs
burial, deep and eternal, as that loath
some and disgusting organization which
in the hour of the Republic's struggle
for life, allied itself with the bandits,
the guerrillas, the slave drivers and the
defiant traitors of the South.
Never, in the history of parties here
or elsewhere was there so grand an op
portunity for a great organization to
vindicate its unselfishness and it3 patri
otism as was afforded the Democratic
party of the North when slavery attack
ed the citadel of our liborties. How
basely, how dastardly, how truculently
the leaders of that party deserted the
Government, and how seduously, how
untiringly, how insiduously they labor
ed for the slave power and the assassins
the country knows and history with im
partial pen must record. It is to many
of the Bourbonic leaders of the Democ
racy, the men who learn nothing and
forget nothing, unpleasant reading. It
i3 little wonder that Governor Morton's
speech operates like a red hot coal in a
hornet's nest. It is not strange that
small editors, bound to the corpse of
Democracy, solemnly and dolefully hold
up their hands whenever Governor Mor
ton makes a speech and ejaculate, 'That
bad man ?'
They have been at this same lugubri
ous business these many years. All
through the war, whenever a prominent
Son of Liberty was arrested, they howl
ed in unison, 'That bad man, Morton.'
Whenever a box of revolvers marked
Sunday School Books,' was seized on
its way to the lodges of the noble
Knights of the Golden Circle, up went
Democratic hands all over the land and
Democracy groaned, 'That bad man,
Morton. If a cunning scheme to seize
upon our State Government, murder Its
Executive and turn it over to the South
ern Confederacy, was discovered at the
last minute before its execution, 'that
bad ntan, Morton, was cursed and an
athemised for it. As old Bowles disaps
peared behind the walls of the Colum
bus Penitentiary, he sobbed, 'that bad
man, Morton!' and bowed his shaved
head and wept we suppose. When Gov
ernor Morton, by his matchless admin
istrative ability, foiled the vilest nest of
traitors that plotted in any Northern
State during the rebellion, all over the
State, wherever there was a circle of
Knights, a lodge of the Sons of Liberty,
a cabal of snarling traitors, that moan
went up against 'that bad man, Morton.'
Indiana, which came very near being
made an ally of the Southern Confeder
acy, but which, by the patriotism, the
watchfulness and the splendid talents of
our Governor, was made to take the
very highest rank in the roll of-States,
owes him a debt this generation can
never pay. For this, disappointed, foii-
f ed and malignant partizans will never
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forgive him, and now these fellows, who
did all in their power to make the war
for the Union a failure and a farce, to
convert Indiana into an ally of Davis
and a foe of the republic, attune their
pipes in harmony and ever and anon
croak doleful calumnies of 'that bad
man, Morton.' Oat upon such ill-disguised
meanness, such transparent mal
ice. As long as the enemies of free
government and the adherents of des
potism in any form denounce the name
of Lincoln and deride his memory, so
long will they hold in like detestation
the name of Oliver P. Morton. And this
is his crown of honor. The plotters
against our republic's life hate Morton,
and have good cause to hate him. His
is ability of the very highest order, tal
ent never surpassed in our country, and
to it is united a will as unbending as
that of Jackson, and a patriotism as lof
ty as that of Washington.
This people may and do thank God
for 'that bad man, Morton.' It was one
of the blessings and mercies vouchsafed
our State and country that he was at the
head of affairs when treason made its
mightiest and last effort to destroy the
Republic. Maligned and calumniated
beyond any man in the nation, a true
treasure of his ability and his service,
he yet occupies in the heart of the
American people a place second to that
of no man that has ever lived.
A 'lady' in New Bedford, Massachu
setts, recently bought a pair of white
gloves, to be returned in case they did
not suit. They were returned 83 not
suiting, when it was discovered they
had been used to decorate the hands of
a corpse, and removed before the lid of
the coffin was screwed down.
Dakotah Territory, it is reported, will
soon be asking for admission into the
Union as a State. Villages are spring
ing up there rapidly, and more than five
thousand persons have emigrated to the
Territory this summer. The present
population is estimated at 20,000, and
forty-seven thousand acres of land have
lately been taken up under the home
stead and pre-emption laws, by actual
settlers.
The papers relate an anecdote of a
beautiful young lady, who had become
blind, having receivod her sight after
marriage. It is not an uncommon thing
for people's eyes to be opened by mat
rimony. Whenever i find a real handsum wo
man engaged in the 'wimmin's rights
bizness,' then I am going to take mi hat
under mi arm and jine the procession.
Josh Billings.
Good Rules. A good man once said:
The longer I live, the more I feel the
importance of adhering to the following
rulesjthat I have laid for down myself in
relation to such matters :
1. To hear as little as possible that is
to the prejudico of others.
2. To believe nothing of the kind un
til I am absolutely forced to it.
3. Never drink in the spirit of one
who circulates, an ill report.
4. Always to moderate as far as I can
the unkindness which is expressed to
ward others.
5. Always to believo that if the other
side was heard, a very different account
would be given.
It is siid that along the rebel breast
works before Petersburg has grown up
a continuous line of peach trees. The
rebs having eaten the fruit while on
picket duty, they cast the seed aside,
and now they appear in one continuous
line of forty-five miles of beautiful trees
yielding the greatest variety of the fi
nest fruit.
While a party of workmen were en
gaged in excavating a cellar at Thorn
Grove, New Jersey, at the depth of
about five feet they struck an iron ves
sel, which, upon examination, was found
to contain a large amount of specie.
The laborer who first made the discov
ery proceeded to appropriate the pro
ceeds, when others coming up, disputed
his right to do so, and insisted upon a
division, whereupon a fight ensued.
Two colored laborers were beaten to
such an extent that their recovery is
considered doubtful. The money is
ancient coin, some pieces dating as far
back as 1716.
All but one of the seventy women
who went to Oregon from Massachu
setts two years ago, have married, and
there is room for more of the same sort.
The wages of female servants in the
new State are $15 to 830 a month in
gold. With such tempting offers, and
the not remote contingency of a hus
band to boot, what sensible maiden, un
appreciated at home, can fail to see that
the best way to appease unfriendly for
tune is the Pacific course?
The Order of Free Masons have call
ed a grand meeting of all Masons to
take place at Geneva, Deoember 8, this
year. -
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Woman's Right in Theory and Practice.
The Lowell (Mass.) Courier tells an
amusing story of an old lady a strenu
ous advocate of the rights of women, as
interpreted by the leaders of the Rights
party who was recently a visitor at the
Isle of Shoals. When she left she was
in the way of being assisted from the
row boat to the steamer by a Lowell
gentleman, when her foot slipped and
in she went np to her neck in the briny
deep, carrying her faithful assistant par
ty away with her.
The latter, however, gallantly, but
with great difficulty, held fast to the old
lady with one hand and to the steamer
with the other, his feet dangling in the
water, and just keeping the old lady's
head above the surface till several men
got hold of them, and pulled them on
the deck. The steamer was crowded
with ladies end gentlemen, among whom
there was considerable fright for awhile;
for the woman and her assistant were
for a time in considerable danger. The
old lady behaved in tho most cool and
manful manner during the whole scene.
When she was fairly out on deck, and
stood there calm and unmoved, with the
briny water drinninir from her dress.
and the kind ladies all around offering
her sympathy and assistance, the first
words she . spoke were : 'Well, this is
the first argument I ever met with that
has at all shaken my woman's rights no
tions ! If there had been nobody but
women here I should most certainly
have been drowned . '
1 John G. Whittier's letter to the Wo -'man
Suffrage Convention is character-
ized by all the moderation peculiar to
I the Society of Friends. He says he has
ja general sympathy with the objects of
) the convention, because he sees no good
.'reason why wives and daughters should
not have the same rights as their male
relatives, and does not believe that the
women will generally abuse their privi
leges when they get them. He adds,
however:
"I do not see that the exercise of the
ballot by woman will prove a remedy
lV 1 aL . SI- 1. ' - 1 . 1
ior an iue eviis 01 wuicn sue jusuy com
plains. It is her right as truly as mine,
and when she asks for it it is something
less' than manhood to withhold it. But
unsupported by a more practical educa
rtion, higher aims and a deeper sense of
the responsibilities of life, it is not like
ly to prove a blessing in her hands any
more than in a man's."
Preserving Peaches.
. The following seasonable recipe will
be regarded as an interesting item by
many a matron: The clear stone yellow
peaches, white at the stone, are the best.
Weigh the fruit after it is pared. To
each pound of fruit allow a pound of loaf
sugar. Put a layer of sugar at the bot
tom of the preserving kettle, and then a
laver of fruit, and so on until the fruit is
all in. Stand it over the fire until the
sugar is entirely dissolved ; then boil
them until they are clear ; take them out
piece by piece, and spread them on a
dish free from syrup. Boil the syrup
in the pan until it jellies ; when the
peaches' are cold fill tho jars half full of
them, and fill up with boiling syrup.
Let them stand a short time covered
with a thin cloth, then put on brandy
paper and cover them close with corks,
skin or paper. From twenty to thirty
minutes will generally be sufficient to
preserve them.
A curious marriage occurred last
week in St Louis. A stone-blind bride
groom was led by his blushing bride to
the altar of a Justice of the Peace. That
honest and benevolent functionary
felt it to be his duty to inform the poor
blind man that the chosen of his heart
was really one of tho ugliest women in
the world, and that she had already, to
his certain knowledge, buried two hus
bands. To this the bridegroom respon
ded that he had seen the lady a great
many years ago, and that, according to
the best of his recollection, she was then
'a thing of beauty' and a 'form of life
and light.1 As the unfortunate man in
sisted upon being married to this dream
of his earlier and happier days, the knot
was tied; but the Justice said that he
couldn't in conscience take a fee for do
ing it; and so the poor victim was sent
away rejoicing.
A tabular statement of the whisky
trade of the United States during the
past two years, just prepared at the In
ternal Revenue Bureau, shows that the
consumption for the fiscal year ending
June 30, 1868, was, according to the tax
receipts, 6,709,546 gallons, while for
the year ending June 30, 1869, it waa
61.381.621 srallons, with thirty-seven
districts yet to be heard from. Temper
ance advocates will perhaps be disposed
to quote these figures as an evidence of
the startling increase of intemperance
in this country. But the fact is, more
distilleries pay taxes than ever before,
and the lnorease is in favor of honesty
rather than drunkenness.