The Louisville Daily Courier, 1866-11-01

The Grand Jury f Onr City Court Sit ii Judgment upon a Culprit World I They Confeu the Sina oi their yfelghboral PIOUS LUCUBRATIONS HAVE WE A CEXSOB AHOXG IS? Explanatory Letter to Mayor LIthgow 3b the irm J A LUhgon ITnyor of the City qf Loutevllle temporarily filling the office of Judge of the City Court: - By requestor Judge Craig I had prepared fbr presentation to the court a report npon the condi condition - tion condition of the balkllng In which yoa are sluing In Incidentally - cidentally Incidentally 1 bad taken occasion tn append to that report some remarks touching the practice of re reporting - porting reporting in the city papers the procradinye of the court as also a review of thu state of public mor morels - els morels with some cuggeilions ca to the causes of the increase of crime so perceptible ttarongiiout the bunt This report swonMilri te myMtowgtnnd Juron on the ggd ot tie present month witn Urn expectation that It rfoold meot with their hearty rak- 1 eoou found that I had "reckvsi "reckvsi-wllhout - wllhout "reckvsi-wllhout my host" The opinion concerning it wan almost as varied as war the occupations of those composing the Jury I waa completely taken aback mi the showing of bands against me end the Idee at once occurred to me that a certain theory concerning lunacy or which I remembered to have somewhere reed end which I had before regarded re follscione mijit altar all have some foundation lu trath This theory sup suppose - pose suppose that every third mu one may hit ppm to meet "has a screw loose la hie bead" I thought that the marshal ef the court In summoning the grand Jury bad tiireugfa some nuiocountsble freek or dunce Maced his Tittle write of invitation lu the bends of third men - the slgneri of the docu documents - ments documents of course bring excepted One gentlemen thought it would be regarded re treanmption on the pert of the grand July to Inter Interim - im Interim lu any W suy Way with what he esteemed exelusive exelusive-buriness - buriness exelusive-buriness of the dty council and board of L ly the hi dennen A second wu dearly of the opinion that the report did sot go fer enoagh He thought that the city Jell wee as gleet a naleenee re the cltr court room and that tho dty work-home was greeter nairaeee then either A third a venerable dtiaen red re old friend - when he gave expression to bis sentiments I felt like exclaiming at ta bratedeclared bis opposition to the report on the grounds that I bad not inol inol-eated - eated inol-eated say remedy tor the erilr oomplalned of This gentleman would not learn even a hole for Ihe - ips iff my well known madsstv Aft ' " fonrih objected to tho report on the score oflts rtlaan bias It Is well known to you honor Uut am no politician mnch-lees a partisan I wee nominated fix an office once by a number of my Irionds bnt that wu a dozen yean ago daring the glorious reign of law in Kentucky and whan my friend Judge Craig 80b Baird end other pme pme-tlllnuera - tlllnuera pme-tlllnuera zt this bar together with ih s majority of Ita afraid of the at the time and my fellow-citizens Pope I wee r cm possibly so drssdfol Pope I wee generally regarded m possibly eo regarded Mill re being possessed of sneaking sort nr kindness fix the old reutleman over the water snd of course I ws heal beaten In tha raua fix the school tiustorsMp of the ward lu which I reside From fust dav to this I have had uo aspirations for office In feet I don't know of any office fix which I am suited that would salt ma to bold My tests does out run la the lire of big dinners and champagne snniien (at public ex expense) - pense) expense) and therefore 1 am uoflt to ha an alderman or common councilman In regard tn that els se of offices wherein the "pickings and steeling" over overran - ran overran In their totality Urn nominal salary I own that It would be a pleasant thing to he uugly aaceonoed In one of them were It not fix the feet that 1 nave not been able to diVesl myself entirely of a thing called conscience I am no partisan your honor I never wu good at hating neither is my reports partisan report loots to on tha thou by whom if was occupied and nsed' Uo Ended to thlc remark aometliing shoot levee" and "iawy-ra" and "prostiintes" and "reporters" the exact tutu r much I did not catrh s The greater number towevv-no those doclining Ui sign tha report appeared to 1w uvutid by tha motive of economy - th-dr pleading was from lbs stand-point of poverty corporate and - In Individual - dividual Individual "Cily Improvement in mid cost money and con sequent ly increased tsvalion The Ktstency with which pu-sc diaaentci- harped on his point reminded me of cl renin stance which occurred tn my native town when T 'was a boy Thera wu sn old follow named McDonough re re-siding - siding re-siding them st the time who wu lu Hie habit of retting drank whenever hla mean and oppnrtnul oppnrtnul-y - y oppnrtnul-y afforded him tha chance to Indulge Lis dnbaaad appetite fix whisky At such times l)r waa ex exceedingly - ceedingly exceedingly good nnlurcd and would hn-'-iii iriendt with hHiwdetaVs about bis -resiis-1( v ly One dnv ha button-holed s rough tat winy trentlrmdn of his acquaintance who took this means of wat watting - ting watting rid or Mm: Bald ha lu so-war u-uc of Me Me-Donongb'i - Donongb'i Me-Donongb'i complaints "Poor did you lay! Yta you are all Hist Mac you are I hr d - t jioorest aian I bare ever known" The dii-niiv of McDon McDonough - ough McDonough was at once amused Slid flits' i dling bint self up ho exclaimed "Not 10 d - d p'ior ait liar Mr Campbell !" My dissentient friends of tha Jury isiherare or imagine Iheuireivea to he as superlmivly pooru wu eld McDonaugli but iiillkc him ihWr win of pride dees not aeom to prS-ond-r-'u over Uiclr sense of prurinuCi - - Tha report tliornioro wliV I have now the honor to present to the eonrt 1 sv carry with it no greater weight than that r:rl- it any acquire from Its tnthor's lonatnre and t' o-o of liis usest usest-I - I usest-I mi Ing felkiw-jhrore t ma? say of it in tits language which takspesra pats Into tbearawilh of one of Ms fools - "An ill-feyored thing yonr honor bat min owi" If its merits bs problematical as may wall ba In Insured - sured Insured from tba nnjoetions preferred against It by the major part of tbs Jury no tlsms cm attach to these gontfemen on account of Its presentation hould yonr honor be tn dealt ss to in disposal bawled ovor would respectfully tnegcat thfil It ta 1 ' one of Ihe newspaper reporters present A J WEBB Foreman To IB Honor theJudgt of tho loitiodb Ctty (tarf: In yonr charge to this grand Jety upon tba btuinsaa fix wlijeh we tad pi entering sen callad to together - gether together yoa spoke of ths dnty incumbent on as of visiting and if firand necessity ot reporting upon the condition of the public ofleea of the city In the discharge of tali duty wa taka oeceatoa at tha close of oar eiulngs to szy to you Md through yon to those whose bn mess H Is or should be to pro provide - vide provide suitable sport nsooU in which to transact ell affairs having reference to the public business ot the corporation - Irs offices of fad testers end the like - that the buildings in which yon sre sit tin r end In which yoa ua obliged to hold a daily court Is s disgrace te the city snd noirsmte in the syes of evorv appreciative ci Lizes or stimngor that dm occasion to enter Its partita It le narrow con confined - fined confined illy ventilated and altogether unsuitable fbr the ncc to which it has been applied Tne dignify which should attach to the Judiciary require that it should be upheld hy proper surroundings- No such suirousdlngs sre here pos possible - sible possible is does contiguity Jostling each other and swarming around the official desks appear dally crowds of men and women prim ten end their friends complainants and others taring business before the court - policemen lawyers witnesses snd spectator in each numbers ss to render even sn attempt at order impossible and giving to the place tha appearance sum of a ward assembly romn than that ff a coart of civil taw We do wit pretend to know in how fer it ta pracficsbie I or the city eathoritles to remedy the evil at ones hot we do know test the subject of baildlnga suitable cily court room with proiier offices n wTjury-roomi attached ta one that ihoaid receive their prompt and earnest attention There ere two other matten which have attract attracted - ed attracted our attention npon which with your Med per permission - mission permission we would remark at somewhat- greater length Tha first has refixenca to a practice now become common In ell onr principal eUtos of n porting ta tha public papers often with dlrgsstln details tha criminal reoorda of police and othc remark at omawhat- a reference to a pract become common In all onr principal eUles of re re-- - - re-- -- - - - feting other courts The interests of society would in onr opin opinion - ion opinion be much better conserved were the courts ea -tinny dosed against newspaper reporters end ear ear-taluly - taluly ear-taluly the talents which many of these ge undoubtedly possess coaid he of these srntiemea much more tane tane-literatnrc - literatnrc tane-literatnrc Wa pnbilc mcnftoa of certain Crimen on account of which puttee are frequently arraigned- before this court to cay nathli of the offensive details brought oat through the investigation Is notllTug fait an nnmlxed evil The report ot them trials spread ant In tha ptth ptth-lie - lie ptth-lie now spa tiers end laid before the eyes or our youth sre-Just ae certain to create eontsminatioa oT ntlnd and heart is Ira Is to create flame er to provoke dissenllou Thirty years a newspaper proprietor would have dared to pabl inch detail oferim coo trials ss ore now almost daily paraded in the eolanin of oar public print Does not this feet elva evidence ofa amoral weak weakening - ening weakening or the moral principle tat the mind of onr ncoiffc? And dare not Ute Dirt her feet that crime ta on the incretute throughout tha land end has hen and else where shown itself lq new end horri horrible - ble horrible phases clearly Indicate the dangers to be drreued from its being made ftmlitar? Tni brings ns to the third point upon which we designed to call the attention of gear honor and of 11 others who fuel sn interest In -promoting social goad order end well being Wa refer to the tearful increase of crime apparent from one end of tho country to tho other Yoa are old w - rb yonr honor to remember the time when any de deliberate - liberate deliberate murder or other csutal crima would 1 undoubtedly possess eoald e mn dully ex erica in s higher walk of I bold that thd pnbilc mcnftoa of ear murder or otbarcspiul crima would have ' - " fh ( trnllon But nhw ao femflUMO rar minds tava become thasa crimes that ttaycanaa st most hot s passing sensation of detestation or regret an re remembered - membered remembered fix t day er m hour end then forgotten ad the do- Itiiap- perent in the whole strata or society from lira highest to the lowest Thera exists no profes profession - sion profession oc occapation Md no condition of life that does not suffer degradation almost dally in tne un unworthy - worthy unworthy conductor one or another of it members Deadly attempts npon life peculation frond II II-centiousnew - centiousnew II-centiousnew malfeasance In office debauchery and other kindred crimes sre Just of as frequeni occurrence among those fitted by education to lead others In tha march of program toward a higher anti better eiviliiaiiraia ant petty lar larcenies - cenies larcenies assaults npon person drankenneso snd other tnlcor offenses among Ute degraded or Illit Illiterate - erate Illiterate classes or society Tha trace or the serpent is everywhere perwutll ' - as nets m minister's study In tha social circle cad at lbs feniily altar even in God's holy temples - everv everv-whera - whera everv-whera dare anting and crime sod iln ibrand and everywhere sre erected altars to ths basest and nto degrading pssalras of hsmsn ostera We all know that thu li true - femeutablr trod But why Ii It so? 1 Why Ax Instance sre thorn who have been P'sdcdto rale aver our pollitcsl dretinlw filled with bitterness toward s tana part of rar popota popota-tldu - tldu popota-tldu snd are soaking by bin of Attainder and pa pans! - ns! pans! its fates o pantah end drgnde them: Why thta spirit of nndlcti vanes ton r-l t prortrate snd snflhring people? Ii It not b- --uurt lic-c men tva lost night of the l-rtm-- Aais-rnt nur civilization- bfltfuw th--y art lh--i -vrs filled with Ihu spirit of prid- s-ri H-iiiu-y and bi-nct-utterly iui-fi-iin-? to u-r leioorupprw riaio y ' -1 ' 11 - in r-giiu to vmrn mil it jtolfly- Why it It 1 -iS 1 piiliii-i vrtisj's en lorn or an-ty-zr to T-aid their eppr ivh-h is honest bnt mir-lako- men but socsk f 1 Is m In their pub': si-eerh'" ud ip tlis-r pi criinio-ns stei my and ru iu of the govern men t 1 -1 the overthrow ol order ? lotsa mu ibis re all from an overweening pride In tho vein-u-Uirt own oplatoua snd tus supercilious eon tempi tr Utr (Clintons of otin re ? nd are not Hirst -ma fiacd upon s rit -eotlr-b hi iti- very satire opposed to

I pistil udos fell on deaf ear - - if eflket on the masses except It bs to weak on or destroy their felth both ta ths rsilsss snd threats of rsvstatton I teachings of man: observed sn cxl which has s morals While In the pub pub-ot - ot pub-ot three men too may b nary tack of consistency damaging effect os public one etas of sinner icaeivocit their hsude the tendorest pity class not one whit mix guilty era denounced with s Vehmnsncy and bitterness of Invective that coining from men pretending to he teecliera of s religion or lovo ta lit the highest degres astonish astonishing - ing astonishing When s weak woman saspsetsd of complicity in s mat crime - on who was deemed Innocent by almost every member of her acquaintance and who Is now generally looked upon ss having been officially murdered - Is hunted to death hy govern government - ment government officials civil and military nos-ons word of sympathy or compassion is uttered hy thou man over their hsplsss lot But lu other Instances where parties stand Court cisd of high misdemean misdemeanors - ors misdemeanors how gently ara they treated I With what touching tendsrorea ara their Crimea glossed over and excused 1 A most hippy acuity have three men for magnifying blunders Into crimes and of reducing abcolnto acta of criminality Into peocsdil peocsdil-so - so peocsdil-so light and attenuated os to appear near akt Ie to thdr Why r opposite virtues Is it that official and mercantile integrity le amongst ns but Ihe nuke frxtunes bv - 1 enterprise They re sleeted to offices of -trust snd profit In ths some wsy tod sxense Ihslr sets on ths plea of general " ss thep ' - - Tbgy frequestly thsir offiess for purely selfish prer ta regard the fever of their eohititnenl in thought patronage of purposes and ap ap-Ifaeir - Ifaeir ap-Ifaeir constituents more in theTight of s sums purposely pieced lu their bands for setr-aggrandisemont rather than as a trust fix tbs publlcgood Ths gift of talon t instead of being nssd fix high taffy and pa patriotic - triotic patriotic purpoccs has become a purchasable article and now nd scheme however selfish or sec sectional - tional sectional no sntsnxiss however -wild or foolish so for m general Interests ara concerned and no moral or - r snare teres ted 1- Bo other Jg contract In ths interest of indiridusls or corpora corporations - tions corporations by soma unaecoutsbts means - how ws don't know though ws may reslly guess - sic seen to pass and ns approved and ths booby public soon finds itself ssddlud with sn additional weight of taxation in order that ths already monstrous profits of trading corporation shall attain to slid more monstrous proportions Is it any wonder your honor with inch examples In high places before ths peopls with inch Influences surrounding them with such n Iterances upon which to mold thsir opinions that cnma should hs everywhere on ths increase? Bnt there Is still mother cause fix ths state of public morals which ws deplore In regard to which wo desire to say word Ws refer to the laxity with which public Jostles Is administered in our courts It has been rotated hy one of onr body that In a conversation held bet w sen him sad one of ths most learned and pars lodges of our com commonwealth - monwealth commonwealth then on the bench of one of onr cir circuit - cuit circuit s tbit he was spoken to se follows: "Sir dar darted - ted darted s recent sitting of onr court there come before me fix trial no lew than thirteen parties arraigned for capital iDd penitentiary offenses Of these two only wen convicted while tn my opinion bed the Juifre determining the guilt or innocence of the parties been property regard thi of the taw ml evi evidence - dence evidence and of their oaths eleven shoo Id have been convicted and but two acquitted" Many persons otherwise well-meaning ere possessed or s "sickly sentimentality" which inclines them to leniency where the offender's life or liberty is concemoa which did they but property consider they would fled not only wrong In Itself bnt productive or the wont results tn the Interests or society The taw lanlehes the offender not in s spirit or vengeance nit in order to prevent erime-through a whole wholesome - some wholesome leer iff its nnnlshmset The murderer that Is condemned and hang the forger end thief tbst receive his deserts in being Immured within the wall or s penitentiary ore os it were set np to serve us warning monuments to prevent dlsaetor to others Crime that goes unpnuUhedmaltipHea itself Hence one murderer let luoae upon eoolety may be the occasion of many other murders Thus wHl men prgnu: Hun ta s uersbo diet bee lu defi defiance - ance defiance of taw pot lo deatn fats fellow croalure end who hss nevertheless ssenped the penalty doe to Mierime- Why may not you too or I or another man ourselves npon onr enemy snd stay Mm n foil expectation that we also stall ta able to wcane the nmal consequences of onr set? It is thus that non-hufillsrent of duty os tho part ofa Juryman whither Ms action be from the mo motive - tive motive oirr hesmf which It ie incumbent on every citizen to uphold tha tat In iti integrity end when ltta perverted through hie moans ta becomes by the feet part taepe eriin eriin-Inie - Inie eriin-Inie in every nntawfiil act that stall he nccaeloiied through hie B J WFBB Foreman W W POWERS ' HKNBY W EH M HOFF H T JEFFERSON T O BT1SIN CONRAD HOLMAN The Expected Meteoric Shower in No-' ember The public hu been advised for some time by Hie papers that on or about the 12th 14th or 16th of November proximo a grand me meteoric - teoric meteoric display inch u hu not boon witnessed since 1888 would occur We learn through the National Intelligencer 'that Professor Fer Fer-guson - guson Fer-guson of the National -Observatory is mak making - ing making arrangements to take the arientifio observ observations - ations observations on the -expected phenomena The Washington paper famishes Interesting data on tha intycct a portion of which we subjoin ss posqpslng no little interest -in connection with the 'nearness of the anUelpstcd display: The appearance of shooting stars Is quite common but in the months of August and November of each year they are seen in great greater - er greater number generally about tha 10th or An gnat and 12th ot November The greet mete meteoric - oric meteoric shower of 1799 seems to have drawn tha attention of sst ronomen more perticalariy to this subject and from that time to the- recur recurrence - rence recurrence of the meteoric showers in 1888 and np to the present -day they have been en endeavoring - deavoring endeavoring to refer the different phases end characteristics of the phenomenon to known laws and to establish the exact anniversary pf its appearance Thus tar the more brilliant of these meteo meteoric - ric meteoric showers have occurred at intervals of thirty-three yeem that of 1888 wu especially dis distinguished - tinguished distinguished by the immense numbers of moving meteors to be seen at ouce and for tba re remarkable - markable remarkable aixe and splendor of them Among tba myriads of blaring mateora visible on that cion one wm seen - at several places on this continent - It wu recognized by several observers by its extraordinary size and bril brilliancy - liancy brilliancy ss well u by the length of time its train remained visible which Wu a boot ten minutes The luminous train seemed to fol follow - low follow the meteor in a serpentina course and finally disappeared in a vast nebulous cloud many times larger than the moon and which continued to move -onward with a velocity greeter than the cloud a The meteoric displays of 1799 snd 1888 were characterized by the tall of meteorites which rushing toward the anrfhea ot tha earth with a loud noise penetrated beneath it severaLfeet - The periodicity of these a tarry showers is not so definitely ascertained with regard tn the day u tha year They have occurred to a greater or less degree in the months of An An-grut - grut An-grut snd November from 1888 to 1889 bn most remarkable of them have appear! on the 12th of November or between that da and the 14th t The next appearance of Hie meteoric phe phenomenon - nomenon phenomenon therefore is expected on or about the 12th of next month The obeervaUona of aitronomrr have demonstrated that the shoot shooting - ing shooting atari are more numerous between mid midnight - night midnight and sunrise and the majority of them agree In fixing the rediant point - (fast point in which the llnea described by the meteors in their flight c filter - in the constellation Leo limiting the ares of radiation to the immediate vicinity of Regains in the neck ot the lion Others assign the radiant point to the constel constellation - lation constellation Orion : The theory most generally accepted in ac accounting - counting accounting for the regular occurrence of meteo meteoric - ric meteoric showers is that an unusual aggregation of these asteroids exist in the plane which ' reached by tbe earth st that point ot its orbit and Uiroupi which the earth ta several hours in passing although observations have not been suBicently numerous to establish the ex met period ot the earth's arrival st this part ot ltsorbiL During the flight of meteors in November 18SS much apprehension wu mani manifested - fested manifested from fear that ona or more of these as asteroids - teroids asteroids wonid come into collision with tbe earth bnt hitherto no disastrous consequences have ensued from this grand celestial display and attboughthera is some reason to believe thM an evAit of thta kind is possible scientific men unite in the opinion that inch a calamity to not within tbe bounds of probability The Richmond Times says bets of two to one die freely offered in that city 1 that the grand display will not "come off" We how ever do not doubt tint the show will take place and we cannot help reflecting what a harrowing thing tt would be should one of the meteoric bodies say qbout the rise of 8outh Carolina strike In its flight the Btate of Massa Massachusetts - chusetts Massachusetts Impinging first on Bunker H1HI Editorial Courtesies Wo present below specimens of the courte courtesies - sies courtesies that pass dally between the two Evans Evansville - ville Evansville papers - the Jonrnal snd Courier - the former Radical snd the latter Democratic: "The exposure by our correspondent of the pitlfttl cowardice of the contemptible braggart who edits the Courier Is really what's the matter" - Evansville Journal "We do not Intend to baled into sny news newspaper - paper newspaper controversy with the three doge who edit the Jon mol blit we will neverUielca toy here Hint Hie writer of tbe above Isa liar s sneak a thief and one of the moat arran 1 knave and coward who aver throat hla low thieving person Into the company of gentle gentlemen" - - men" - gentlemen" - Evansville (Jouricr

THIRD DAY Bxeelleat Trstthi American Star Winner at the HtnlHan iPnrae - Brlanoll Dlstaneed Ttmik the Bantlaw ef s Bleed Vessel 1 Leaader Winner of the Jockey L'lnb Pane Tha third day's trotting ness ovar the Woodiawn eoerse took place ysstctdsy ud was eortslaly baaullltal day tor the sport The snn beamed brightly and rendered the weather boaulUtally mild sod pleasant The attendance at the track era not as large It should have boon fast nevertheless waa vary re respectable - spectable respectable several hundred persons being present The track was lu good condition ud very felr time wu made ' ran noox The first tees wu for the stallion puna of MOB for all ages two-mile huts to harness In which three excellent hormee were entered - American Star Big Black and Brignoll Tho hones all seamed In excellent condition and a close nee wu expected Brignoll wu the fororlta and waa strongly relied on by his friends In the first best all the horses get off steely to Father ud pad in fine style along the first mils Brignoll dropping vary much to Ilia rear Altar going I he first mils Brignoll's driver commenced pushing hlaa to catch up and had crowded him to endeavor to win the heat when ha suddenly com commenced - menced commenced bleeding at the month and nose and gave a The heat wu theq trotted rat by the other haraaa American Star winning closely In K14V - --Brignoll - Brignoll --Brignoll being distanced the other heat wu thu 'trotted between the othertwo horses - A good start wu obtained mid both bones trotted vary closely American Flat woa the heat in &MX nnun First race - stallion pom $130 free for all ages two mile heats W E-Hughes enton (Tho T lioeha) e 1 American Star 1 1 B A Alexander raters Big Block by Mcm- brinoCbler dam Block Bose t I H Brand raters b a BrignolL tar Mem- brino Chief dam by Woodford ' die Time - SeldX AM1' This 'wu for the Jockey dab parse ef $100 lor four year olds mile heats in which three hone' wo entered: Billy Bobinaon Lea Oder and Billy Billy-Billy - Billy Billy-Billy Bobbuon wu reled off before tke nee on accrant of It bring brought up that ha wu five years old The other two horse trotted the race which wu woa fay Leander la two straight heatr the other hone bring does np In each beat The following lithe atniKsnr Second race Jockey club pan $106-for four year old - mile heats: 1 Cspt Funingtra eaters T J Mscey's bl'k s Lauder by Brrkara dam by Pitot Jr 1 1 t A U Brand raters b n Billy by Brignoll 1 1 Tims COS foOfi The race! today will be qnlta interesting and 111 be u follows: First race Jockey Ctnh purs $100 for any double teams two-mil heats to wagon : L W B Hughes (T P Bocfae) gr g Bolly Lewis sndmsta A A II Brand (J Btynn) eh m Betty and mete 1W1 Milton (V Brown) b m Flora May and mate Second race Jockey Clab pane $100 mile heats three best in firs to hsrncaa : W E Milton (Bobt Johnson) chg Bob John- fi W'k Thoms (J ConllskX ch g John Mor Morrissey - rissey Morrissey A A II Brand (J Blynn) h g Blr Waller -Trains leave the Frankfort depot at fed) and felO BunaLAnx - During Tnesdkr night the resi residence - dence residence ol Mr Berharoox on Fonrih street between Wslnatand Chestnut streets was entered through aside window by soma persona ud every barau trank drawer and closet In every room of the bone searched hot nothing taken The afikir ms rather strange The Gazette a Radical newspaper at Indianapolis comes ont squarely and fully In fllvor of negro suffrage A report from Minnesota says the com crop la ao abort In that Slate that com is now being purchased In Wisconsin to ship there THE CBlBIfl IN BALTIMORE It seems that there waa difficulty about the removal of the police board in Baltimore in 1869 which giro rise to litigation A re or or-anteation - anteation or-anteation or the board followed under a new aw with this explicit provision : For official misconduct any ot the said commis commissioners - sioners commissioners maybe removed bis concurrent vote of the two house- u' tun general assembly or by the governor lu the recess luureoT In regard to the exercise of power by the governor under thia provision the law of Miry lend further provides u follows : oona orrenicHziuLuw abiicls 41 no It Upon complaint made against any civil or military officer who can be removed or suspend suspended - ed suspended by the governor the governor may animuoa ! aim but witnesses to testily for or against rack complaint ud may allow inch wllneeeee one dollar s day for their attendance snd Itinerant charges ud may enforce the strinduoe of such witnesses In the seme miner u the courts may 81c 14 Upon complaints made under the pre preceding - ceding preceding section the party complained against snail have cony or the complaint ud notice or the time whoa the governor will inquire into and ex ex-mine - mine ex-mine Ihn limit The talk about "rebel voting" is lnteudud to Dbscnre this ease and to arouse passions and provoke violence Tho taw passed is a Bcpnbiican law: and the governor wlio proposes to execute it is a Re Republican - publican Republican governor Baltimore hu 800000 Inhabitants and is en entitled - titled entitled to 40000 votes In the last election bnt 600 voted Republican voter It scchta (not rebel iym iym-patbfienV - patbfienV iym-patbfienV wore excluded from the ballot-box Violence and fraud were resorted to to prevent ua lilled electors from exercising their rights 'he charge is made by 8000 cittaena and la sustained by ample proof The commissioner! do not deny the charge and seek to escape by refusing to moot It 1 They threaten violence and even civil war and the Incendiary character qf their threats should be alone enough to determine their fit fitness - ness fitness fix office The more sober-minded of the Republican prints acknowledge the folly and wickedness ot the course ot there officials Tho Spring Spring-field - field Spring-field Republican says In the course of an ex extended - tended extended disc union Forney says they will not appear and Hut If the tremor uaaartakee to remove Lbem they will re rest - st rest by fines As the law authorizes the governor to remove them fin official miteoudnet IrUiey foil f tne nude the governor win at west hero the taw on bis side in removing them Bo for ae Baltimore ie concerned then Ie ao doubt which petty would prevail la straggle of brats force fin the fighting man who were formerly dletlugniaaed as "ping nglies" and "blood mbs an now with the Be Be-iblleans - iblleans Be-iblleans and would fight fin them u fiercely u did fin the Democrats whu they were- the la power Bnt if there should he u ont- in reelituce to taw ud the Btate ezecutlre then flu be no doubt of the final result The Na National - tional National government must necessarily take the side of the Btate government snd then would be few "boys la blue" to satwer Colonel Forney's callsud take the rebel ride In each a war Tha Blood Tabs and Plug Uglies never fbnghl lor the Democrats Thu were al always - ways always in the hands of the enemies of De Democracy - mocracy Democracy The Chicago Republican says We not only deprecate bat we heartily and tm tm-qnaltfiedly - qnaltfiedly tm-qnaltfiedly denounce u dangerous to the country end fetal to tho Ke publican party the language which Colonel Forney write from Baltimore Let ns maintain in spite of ovary provocation oar cUegluee to the Uetoa end oar poeeeeeion of the sir end denounce ss political mountebanks end cheristsee the would-be Republican 'aglteloc whu would throw us into the fries poeiuou of rebels against the national authority The N T Evening Poet ness this language : The trial Of the peHee commissioners hu bare rat for Friday by Governor Swann who appears to ae to have acted so for with great numeration red good suae We hope both parties will unite to Iced lock we enure the Republicans snd eourre to this metier bare prevent dead lock we assure the Republicans that their language and eourre to this metier have not gslued tbs approval ef Republicans hare threats of armed resistance do not count for argu arguments - ments arguments here The N if Commercial speaks of the legal aspect of the esse in these words : Gov Swann hss ws sre forced to believe from s psrassl orths taw emoting thsoffies of polles com commissioners - missioners commissioners of Baltimore s leal right te remove such commissioners It says that in the races of lbs legislators hs cm remove them for official mis misconduct - conduct misconduct ir be now chooses toraxerd the setton or the present eommtasionsra In tbs appointment of deetios Judges tn the llrilt of "official miscon misconduct" - duct" misconduct" ht hss a legal right to do so snd the ag aggrieved - grieved aggrieved parties sliraldr quietly submit The New York Times concludes review of the esse in tbeee words : Ws agree with lbs Evening Post in thinking Hut tbs Polles Commissioners In this esse have got themselves st great disadvantage by taking ground that Is utterly untenable ir they hive committed no official misconduct they should hero mat the charges snd refitted them By denying s Jurisdiction! expressly conferred by taw they bal acknowledge the Justice of the charge prefone against them m Never wm e esse more clear than this No outcry shout rebel soldiers voting can conceal its true character No one proposes to let such persons vote but the qualified voters ot the Btate the men who a Republicans elect elected - ed elected Swann governor and who sustain him in his office demand lliat they shall be allowed the privilege or the ballot snd tbst they shall not be excluded from tbs polls by dll officials backed by ruffian bauds of and plug-pglics Vts shall soon tee which trinmuhs taw or violence On the side of lew the good sense and conscience of the people ta arrayed Bnt all the corrupt Interests or society Hie ambi ambition - tion ambition of knaves the corruption of the grasping the lust of dominion the evil passions snd de devices - vices devices which elvll war feeds srssll on the side of violence So long m the Forneys snd the Greeley who ere running for office think en outbreak ot violence ana sn armed collision with tbs Stats and Federal authority will help them In their schemes of advancement snd rale they will find provocations and incitements to dis disorder - order disorder and apologies for crime AnoTHxb Nsw temz-Wi have lr-eii authorised by tire proper Masontr aiHlvrlltai of this State to announce another nwinrtl this one got np at Med'us Now Y01! miri called the "Musonir Orphan Asylum 4- -iis-tion" We bear that the country ta b fmc flooded with clrcnlurs setting lurth a g'ii'T lottery scheme lor the purpose a str'i-d of raising funds to erect e uhsiiluiilc iuy Pultun We warn our' read era sgalnt this imposition All alleged "Masonic Lotteries" am swlndli 8L Louis Bcpnbir

ADDRESS OF REV DR EVERTS The Growth and Development of Sin The Vices aid AHarenents which Beset the Path of the Yeug From the Chicago Times jnib) Dr IV W Everts delivered lust evening tho iburtb of the series of tectum to youug men lu the First Baptist church The targe audience room wm nearly filled with a most appreciative audience The lecture waa founded on the text "And sin' wlieu ltS feCiir ished lxingctb forth death" The folltfwilg la a sketch of tha addresa: Everything In nature has a comparatively mall beginning and gradually reaches Its ma maturity - turity maturity - The scorn Imbedded in the earth af after - ter after a long series of yearn becomes the sturdy oak waving Its branches lu the sunlight and defying the storms of centuries tnd the hum humble - ble humble rivulet issuing from a spring so small that an elk or a moose might drink it dry running for miles along a channel so narrow that the hunter can step acrosa it gradually widens ' snd deepens Its ehounelw-he it rolls' on W the sea till It ta capa capable - ble capable of bearing the commerce of a continent This same law of progression exists in the human mind 1 The tiny infent with Its em embryo - bryo embryo Intellect after a long course of yean assumes tha form of mature manhood Bo vice beginning in the inception of a sinftil thought tn Its progress ana culmination fob low the same law of progress 1 It is this law of progression ss applied to the vices of life that embrace nil their terror Itta that when vice is begun it is progressive and that "when It is finished It bringetA death" Hotr insidious the progress and bow un unsuspected - suspected unsuspected the fearful consummation of 8ab-Mth-breaklDg One who hu been brought up to sn observance of the Sabbath stands in swe iff God's commandment concerning the Babbatb but after the lapse of years perhaps fix some slight cause the lew te broken the :dx man fix soma trivial reason withdraws Sot from the house ot God One such dosecration opens the way fix others until there is a painful vacuum hi the mind and thoughts When the Babbatb wm kept 1U engagement observed hla affections and thought were placed npon their proper ob objects - jects objects but now be will lounge late in his bed or read over the morning 'paper or make an en en-pgement - pgement en-pgement with companion! or go abroad He tccomee restless and unhappy worldly thoughts come in tnd his whole life uncon unconsciously - sciously unconsciously becomes changed the pledge made m he kneeled et hie mother's knee is broken the Babtath Is no longer delight to him He now pursurs his worldly schemes on the Bab Bab-beth - beth Bab-beth day until at last the flood-gates of vie weep over him He hu become aBsbfaath aBsbfaath-breaker - breaker aBsbfaath-breaker and Sabbath-breaking is hebdoma hebdomadal - dal hebdomadal descent towards perdition The Bnbbath Bnbbath-bruaker - bruaker Bnbbath-bruaker commits a -double crime: he takes away God's appointment and then confounds amusement with the ides of worship In the cities of tho old world where Sabbath-break- ing la frequent the people are more corrupt and--given to vie than -where the day ta observed and It will alwaja be iol Another vice that la marked by thia 'same mode of progree from small beginnings te that of profanity The boy that ha been lo locus - cus locus tomed to repeat the Lord's prayer in awe of Hia law bnt at length be breaks out in some terrible oath Let him tell hie expe experience - rience experience then end be will ray that he trembled u what he bad done: bnt at length ha becomes fixed In habits of profanity Profanity usually springs from a desire to hide some ignorance or to cover some mcflutness ot mental capacity Kvety vice to useless but how destitute of in is this profknstion or the name of God When man oeoomes e profane msn that habit out off all acceptable approach to God God will not hold him anilUesa bnt will apnnblm away A man who hu a God to awear hy ha no God to prey to The vice of uutruthftiliieaa also steals upon one progressively Nearly every child in early youth ta aa sensitive to the truth as wss finished bring! death Gambling ta a vies that grows from small beginnings to Its fearful consummation Tbe world ta tail of gambling Men love to hsz aid something In various pnnntta bnt tt ta all vlctoos there ta no good In It For some wise purpose coma startilug events have lately taltaa upon the pnblie ear and the true conscience of toe pnblie has rightly Interpreted those events In one place a man wm shot down at a race-eon rae ij another msn Another by e fell blow WM destroyed in onr midst: -and still another ta hot down by hla mistress These are all warnings that the public should herd Look at the confirmed gambler Rested with bis com pail ions toe flame barns from the length lengthened - ened lengthened wick: the lights grow dim In the morn morning - ing morning at last too shrill orow of the cock awakens them to a sense of their plaoe and condition Bo there to no vice that renders a man more fiendish tlian the perfect mastery of gambling When tt ta finished tt bringetb death The vice of Intemperance springs from small beginnings It ta enoagh to say that if chil children - dren children were brought np to take the plrdge of ' " 'w dried npi sn It total abitlnenoe this vice wonid be i It breaks down ebsneter fortune snd even eivtltaatlon: every tiling ta ruined before it It ta stated tost tlia late fire in Quebec which destroyed 2500 houses and rendered 18000 persons horn el As originated In a drinking saloon Bo here in Chicago where there are 2000 of these saloons some one's- sons are forming habits of irretrievable Intern peranoe And lastly Impnrlly of heart "When tt ta finished tt bringetb death " There Isnotolni nqblor hi man than a pare heart A man toil regards bis honor in toe treatment of women cannot be fer wrong In other respects and a man mnst he utterly demoralized who could rain innocence and bring ihanie upon an entire femiiy Onr Instincts so declare it and there ta no other erime for the commission of which the pnblie will J notify the taking of the life of the offender A civil is tion that o o-qnirea - qnirea o-qnirea tha taking of tha life ot the seducer is higher dviltasuon than tho lower judgments of toe communities of continental Europe - not tost tne crime wholly JnsUflM toe taklnr of life Thta vice begins with impure cm sinful thoughts and when one ones yields to the sin he moves like a train on an inclined plane to certain perdition - KENTUCKY ITEMS ' JFrom tha Flamlagabaig DUpaich ' Couktt Court Dat - Wa are sorry to chronicle tha feet that Monday tast wm a de decidedly - cidedly decidedly dnll day tor the sale of stock Bnt little disposition wss manifested by buyers tq take hold of stock at any price that would come near meeting toe views of the sellers Even the moat liberal inducements of credit fiuled to work on their speculative nerves A lot offelr yearlings were bid off by Mr Drat al $14 per head Horses and mules were offered bnt no sslec effected Ona dry cow sold fix $5L a great decline ' John P Da mall aold atwuyeor old bniloek ' hlng 2180 pounds for $310 8am ne ' was the purchaser Thta wm indeed id animal Who can beat It? ' Wm B Dudlqy mf thta county sold to E R Seymour ot Balnbridge Ohio on court day 18 bead of three year old eatile averag averaging - ing averaging L840 pounds at 9 cents Thifi ta Mid fc he toe heaviest lot of cattle ever sold in tola eouity - ' Tobacoo Babx Buxnxrf - The Owen sboro Shield cvn toe tobacco barn of Mr E R Jett In Davie county wm destroyed by fire few nights since The bam eontalnei 000 pounds of tobacco IFrom tbe Lexington Oh server! Btooi Balm - L B Offatt auctioneer sold fix Mason Henry Esq of Woodford county on tbe 25th Inst 89 one year old mnln a $108 50t 28 two year old mulct at 8150 2 one year old eolta trotting stock at $829 eaeb 1 one year old filly $270 1 one year -old colt (Brown Chief) $825: 1 one year old colt $91) 1 do do $189: l socking colt $809 1 one rear old itnd eoli$19Q 1 fine brood mare £S57: fat bogs $8 85 perewt stock bogs $8 90 per ewt l yoke oxen $180 work horses from $00 to $180 milch cows from $99 to $180 Bnoomro - A person named Oldbam Mid to have been In some wajpcennected with Bur Bur-bridgda - bridgda Bur-bridgda administration dnrlng tbs reign ol terrorist! yestesday sitting quietly in front of the Phcenix Hotel when a Mr Shackleford of Cincinnati who alleges that Oldham hat caused bis arrest by Burbridgc approached him and stabbed him In toe lace Oldham at once changed hit base and wm at ones fired at without effect st lie was rapidly making hia way down the street CowriDEMcn Gaxx - Last county court day at Paris a man stepped up to a place where a number of horses were hitched end selecting a good one took him to an auctioneer who wm in full career of hie vocation and told him to sell him No sooner add than done The cneHoneer' of course thought all wm right end bended over the monoy less hla commission Shortly after the real owner appeared and claimed bit hone Search wm Instituted for the confidence man bnt be wm non out inventu - Lexington Gazelle Rokaxtio AMD PiAimcAL - Jacob Klepfrl twenty yearn ago married Mtai Kate Schmidt In Germany Two or three years later Jacob eame to America and settled in- Angtatae county Ohio He neglected to inform hta with of his whereabouts and aba- believing him dead married again Twelve yearn ago he earns acrou the ecu with her second hus husband - band husband end located in the mom eonnty within ten mllm of her former lord Btrugely enCogh though living so near tlievhed never met until tast Thnradiay whu J-icsohTliiting the eonnty fair at Wapakonetta wu rather surprised to meet his deserted Vnu "swinging around the circle "mit enorir-r man" end bail' a dozen children He made himself know n ud the two Mt down end had a long talk abont old times In Germany Bhe advised him that under the rirenma fences hr bid better retire for uotber sixteen year hs her second hnaband suited her best end sie in intended - tended intended to stick to him - Dayton (Ohio) Empire W- Two New Yorkers have made the fol following - lowing following wngen If Fenton ta elected the Hoff Hoffman - man Hoffman man ta to rev tbe Futon mu one cent for every vote in Fenton's majority It Hoff Hoffman - man Hoffman is elected rice rent

Btlfrll and voluptuous woman upon the stags Bbe la reported to hava been lost upon tha Evening Star When last seen she was clinging to a spar but being very heavy could not have remained above tha waves long Julia Morti Mortimer - mer Mortimer wm a native of Philadelphia and made her first appearance there m a ususcusa in a oon oon-eert - eert oon-eert saloon in Arab street below Seventh some years ago Bhe eras twenty-five years of ? 'i T ' ' HIM MILLII VOWLXa This distinguished terpslehorean srttote wm reckoned 11m moat beautiful wram la Aer vrolession Jfot) in fotm sod XesUii-o BIwwm waU-kpowu iu thta city- aad played a very successful ugagement at the American Tfaea Tfaea-ter - ter Tfaea-ter here last spring As a dansenac aba wm remarkably graceful and agile and wm rapid v - 11 ny Clara Louisa and El with her three list era rama wm en rente to New iromssii Orleans to fill a professional engagement hern -Miijle wuibo accompanied by bar protector and reputed husband Mr Wm D on of a well known banker of thta city The couple was Mteuelbiy very affectionate and mef death heroically clmped in each others' arms Bo prominent a position bad Millie talus in her profession that she readiiv com com-adfi - adfi com-adfi salary of $125 tier week aid her sisters Ulan Lontaa and Emma $75 per week TUcy-era of English parentage Millie eame thia eountry about six yearn ago and made her debut In 186ft She became a grtet favorite remaining bare for some time after which she wut to Washington She thu traveled with Frank River's company hocom hocom-Ing - Ing hocom-Ing Brest fevonte m a dansense Returned to England and in company with her aister Ctara revisited America The two then appeared In different cities m the Fowler rs meeting with flattering sneeess About ir ago Mil He again vis ted Europe fix the purpoM of h rinsing her mother aha her two sisters - Louisa end Emma - to this country She returned with them to this city since which time they have been before tba public and recognised ss popular performers Millie end Clara were danaencaee and Louisa wm a vocalist The mother ta at present living in Philadelphia left to mom the Iom or four beantifsi and afleciionate dingUterv MiM Millie wm 24 years of ge' Miss Clara 20t MiM loniM 185 MU Emma) 22 Belle Boyd's fonrth hatband Wylda Hnr Hnr-nge - nge Hnr-nge wm also a poasengsr This gentleman xame notorious in connection with the Bho Bho-indoah - indoah Bho-indoah On hla arrival In England about three yearn ago be married Belle Boyd and shortly attar made hla debut M a dramatic reader In the provinces The reception he met with there emboldened him to tarn his attention to the stage He arrived in this oonntrv about six months ago and at ones advertised for star engagements bnt not luc luc-fieeding - fieeding luc-fieeding In effecting any sailed fix New Or Orleans - leans Orleans to try his fortune there He wm a yonnB about thirty yearn ot age rather llmly bnilt and of good appeanmee - Tax SPALDING A XIDWXLL TXODPX Thera were also on board twenty-two per performers - formers performers engaged in New York by Messrs Iding So Bid well tor toe Academy of Mu Mu-New - New Mu-New Orleans consisting ol Flank Gerard two Talleen brothers snd wives J Ntooli w: Ivm J Ntoolo :llWm Wray ' fimint gnu and young Nicolo Tom Bnsce Mile Delphlne Millie Ctara i Fowler (kr nown cs the Fowler Stater' Wm Dawson Edward Murray Edward Berrv Emma 8 Powers-Julia Mortimer Mrs H B Koch (Kay) Marta E - Lcttv Minnie Mary Taylor and Mzry Duval or these at toe xeaent writing only two ara known to have lean saved - Frank Gerard (an Ethiopian com comedian - edian comedian who wm the only man taved In the third mate's boat and whose residence la No 51 Bond street Brooklyn) and Minnie Taylor Thera are the only two ont of eighty-one pro professionals - fessionals professionals that are known to have been saved! Several of the performers who were engaged to go- with tol company broke their con? tracts thereby saving their lives These w Bob Hart Billy Kmc non and Willi Ai strong who had promised to go hut fortu fortunately - nately fortunately for them they did not start Billy Bccvm and wife were also engaged bnt waited over fix another ctecmcr end atlled on the 6th Inst Wa also understand that E Eddy had a large portion of hia wardrobe on board Dr Bpalding wm to have aocompanlod hla company on tola steamer but fortunately bus business - iness business prevented him ' i ' THI XIOOLO TSQUFB The Nicolo troupe constated of J Nicolo ' M name Nichols) young Nicolo (a pupil) the Talleen brothers (right names Wm Rodney end Thomas Tollldsy) Mr Nicolo eame to this country with Franeont' hippo hippodrome - drome hippodrome end traveled with different clrt os cora- Ctnies He snbscqnently returned to Eng Eng-nd - nd Eng-nd end after sn absence of three years om-e more visited this country bringing with ulm young Nicolo whom- be had adopted and brought np to toe business - Since bis last arrival from England with toe Talleen broth era they have traveled together os toe Nicolo troupe with circua companies dee They have alto been to Havana with Ciitarini This Talleen brothers had their wivea with them Mm- Nicolo ta st present at New York con confined - fined confined to 4 sick bed and nearly etaqy over the death of her husband The Nicolo troupe were ell first -etas artists Tils flint apprar apprar-anee - anee apprar-anee of the Talleen brothers wm it the Four teento street eirens in New Yxk undor ean ean-vh - vh ean-vh with James M Nixon m manager ' " M WILLIAM WRAY William Wray who wm born In New York July 25 1888 was a very clever Ethiopian comedian m well m one of toe moat naeftal and venatile performer In the boaineM - He could play on almost every musical instru instrument - ment instrument known He wm also a clever performer In magic In iact he could doalltUeof every everything - thing everything His last engagement In New York wm with Sanford's minstrels at the old Bowery in July last His brother Edward died ahput lx weeks ago their aged mother ta now left with no one in Urn world to cere fix her MM THOMAS BUTLXm ' Tran Russell (right name Tom 'll alter) wm bora in New York end wm former In Moschutz's settling saloon on ! He first teamed to ring by visiting tbe differ different - ent different "free and eestae" in town fie obtained ins tractions from Tony Paster who furnished him with all the popular comic songs of toe day Hia first regular engagement wm at the Varietiea Detroit In 1868 where he become a eat fevorite He then went to Chadwick's ariettas Chicago returning soon to Detroit great fevorite Varieties Chicago retaining Blnoe thu he hits appeared in different cltfe-a Ho wm considered a good - OTHIg abtuts - ' Edward 8 Berry wm very popularly k: all over the country as a clever Irish vocalist and u efficient itage manager He ua very popular in Philadelphia where be married Celia MdHey For several seasons ha wm stage manager fix Dcagle'i- Varieties- 6L Louis He loaves a wife ud four Children In tola city - Edward Murray wm a tong ud danee mu Ha wu bom iu New York only 17 years of age M'ite Delphlne wu the wife of Wm Wray end was bora In Canada - She was popular ae a Jig ud fiuicy danear and was alsoa valuable aaatatut to her h ns bend in hia ftetafcf magic Mtrie E Letts wu toe dughter of a mem member - ber member of the police force who died In New York taot winter end she adopted the profession u a means of support fix lxr widowed mother ' Mary Duval wm one of the well-known Du Duval - val Duval sisters ud wm popular u a vocalist - A -I CINCINNATI LOTHABIO Ho Harries ia Mississippi Steal Hia ' Wife's Watch aad Deserts Her 'A meat pitiable ease ofleaertion took place In oar cite test week and u publishing It to the world may be the meui of bringing e camp to lustice wa make it public It appeam tlut last spring a man named John Houston honse painter came from Ctnehmeti ud found work In the Kingston neighborhood eeroM tbe Homochit to- In Wilkinson eonnty- He behaved himself well end was Industrious ud became acquainted In a very respectable femiiy where there wu daughter - s handsome tidy good woman - whom he courted end married tast August They remained et home with the old folks where he worked as nonet till tast Wedneodr whu he eame to town bringing a load fether-tn-taw's cotton and hia wife He sold the cotton to e firm in town and got a cheek on the house of Britton A Koonte tor the money On his way to get the money he left hta wife In store first borrowing her watch to leava it at some watchmaker's for repairs lie got hta money ud leCwwo or three hours afterword hu poor wife alarmed et hta absence eame to make inquiries fix him But he wu gone ud all search wu unavail unavailing - ing unavailing Her grief wm poignant not so much because Jsbe wm left penniless and frlendleu wn tost the mu she loved e Itrvor and purity end trast trast-fulness - fulness trast-fulness ot a tine heart should have proved u unloving and unworthy wA gentlemen me of the firm took her to ms borne where hta femiiy showed her every often tiomtbat night end thflfncxt day she de departed - parted departed fur home broken-hearted Houston has most probably gone to hta former home In Cincinnati or it may be went down on the Fashion Wednesday night This ta another illustration of the peril of marrying e stranger perticotariy at tola time So lar Mrs Bouton does not seem to be me of those nnftirtunatra who find themselves the rcoud wife while the first ta living Ftrf John Houston sronndo - Natchez Democrat hT During the present year np to the 22d BepC the foreign export of petroleum from tbe United oiatiw cxcci c-d forty-two millions of gallons lAut year ' j the same noiiofl it wm only 15508986 gal ins or little oyer one-thlrdr

Day after day we are called upon to make additions to tho catalogue of crime and each new instance increases in horror aa though It waa not sufficient to commit a deed of murder bnt ferocity compels the mutilation of the body of the victim The hist and saddest com that baa come to onr knowledge is an atro atrocious - cious atrocious murder committed neqr the town or Bowling Qreenj in which a poor old woman named Still waa the victim and three negro men were the perpetrators The following are the circumstances as related to us by parties who came up on last night's train: -On Saturday last the poor woman had occa occasion - sion occasion U visit tho office of n lawyer in Bon ling Green and while there she mentioned to tho lawyer that ibo had alxty-flve dollars out at her house which was about a mile from town scar the race-course There were present in the office when alio made this revelation three negro men one of whom waa named Lewie - the names of the other two haring been forgotten by onr Informant- - On Monday morning aa soon aa break that waa concluded Mn Still's son n lad ol some twelve or fourteen yearn' went ont tv hie work It will he remembered that It waa a particularly gloomy and cool day with almost continuous fell of drizzling min Borne time la the forenoon tho lad found it to be so eoid that be waa compelled to return to the honae for his shoes On entering a moat horrid sight presented Itself The body of his poor mother lay upon the floor her head split open with an sx and several wounds upon her body where the ax had been driven In aa though the monstrous perpetra perpetrators - tors perpetrators of the hellish deed were determined to make sure and certain work The poor lad raised tho alarm and on searching fbr her little treasure It waa discovered to ho gone 1 The neighbors then examined tho soft ground about the boose and dis discovered - covered discovered tracks loading to and from the build building - ing building one of which showed that one of the party wore a shoe ran down at the side with three huge nails in the heel and a break about the center of the sole Aa soon as newt of the appalling tragedy was conveyed to town Uw lawyer remembered that she had ' spoken of her money to him on Batnrdsv end alio that the man Lewis and two other ne negroes - groes negroes were ' present at the time ' On the above information the three parties were arretted and on one of Lewis' foot waa dis discovered - covered discovered the shoe that made the peculiar tracks spoken of above On applying it to the track the peculiar marks fitted each other exactly Thia seemed to identity him aa one of tho murderers All three were lodged In Jail obliged with participation In the horrible crime The victim was a very exemplary in industrious - dustrious industrious woman had given the fiends no cense of offense tnd was evidently murdered for the little money she possessed Tho Election Saturday- But llUIe Interest u yet seemi to bo felt in the election on Saturday next for s member of the legislature from the fourth district to fill the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of Gen A M Stout Another candidate CoLW X Dillard has bran announced Pcmonallyha la reputed to be an excellent and clever gen gentleman - tleman gentleman but u to hla political status we are not advised The contest we Imagine will Ip between Joe B Seed Esq and OoL W B Kinney Mr Bead is an old-feshloncd Democrat snd u the Democracy have large majority In that district and they ere gen generally - erally generally disposed to support him bis chanera RnTUocUori seem to he decidedly the beat CoL Kinney however is an energetic man end an able apeaker and will make strong race ' He has been an opponent of the Democracy hot it la due to him to agy Hut during the recent eauvaae in Pennsylvania aad Indiana some of tho moat effective speeches made In these Statea in behalf of the Democratic candidates were made by CoL Kinney Tho Bepazt af the Grand Jury- The grand Jury of our City Cotut are determined to flourish a tfae CStoe of ear community Thoy were appointed to look alter the condition at rar dty buildings ofleea ud eo forth bat they would let "no pent-ep Utica contract their powers " They went forth into the world of political and theological dloeualon and expatiated In the field of morel censorship nipping every growing aad chewing the cud of iweat bitter fluey under every gnu tree They pitch into the praaa and the preachers Coo Coo-grass - grass Coo-grass ud the Chnieh ud find the whole frme frme-srork - srork frme-srork of society out of Joint If we catch the dHIt oT their wandering thrashta they attribute the demoralization which they find abroad in the lead to the police report ot the newspaper sad to the execution of Mn Surratt We have not time at present to notice this singular production at length ud its uihon must wait w falls longer for the greet moral revolfitlaii whlrh they evidently ra raped - ped raped It to produce Buns eeeaxn La Bus's MiVstbils - This sxoel sxoel-lest - lest sxoel-lest troep of Ethiopian detincaton drew a crowded boast at the Moronic Temple agala lad night It is very rarely that the pablie are per muted to see ud hear a good mlutrel troops n mod of the band! now traveling through the country are noth nothing - ing nothing bat Imposters hot in Knars Bugera udLaRu'a troupe we cn eafoly say that than Is u array of talent each u ie rarely to be found traveling together There are twenty-four or them ssd ill of them star In their branch As thoy will ot remain long with u all should go sod see FeassnaTioa - Led evening the gentlemanly usiitant superintendent of the Citizen' Passenger railroad company wu presented with a magaifl- cent gold-headed cane anffmeetachum pipe by the 1 employes of the road The presentation waa nude on their behalf to Mr Nosier by Captain B N Eldridge book-keeper of the company' and wu qnlta a surprise C L Hhrewsbniy hu boon appointed postmaster at Madison Indians vice Wm E MeLelland removed Daeva tnoa Ceoiras - On Friday night test Mr Tbos Hicks a prominent merchant of New llaven Illinois arrived In this dty from Ctadn Ctadn-til - til Ctadn-til where he nedffbeu purchasing goods Ha as affected with symptoms of eaotora on the train and whu he readied here waa qaito 1IL He wu taken to the Coutlm-ptsL hold where eve si Mullen vs bestowed upon him by Mr Keynoli snd Ms attaches and deo by n number of citizens bat In spite of all that could be dona ha expired la a few hours Hit remains ware forwarded to Evansville on Ratnrday morning - iviacui Ban We copy the above for tho pnrpcu of can caning - ing caning attention to one feet Nearly all the rases of cholera occurring In the rural dis districts - tricts districts of Southerly Indiana are tneeablr dl dl-rin - rin dl-rin to Cincinnati persons having contracted the disease in that city while there on business such aa purchaaiu goods Ac and the disease being developei upon their return to their homes We think re are perfectly safe In saying that we have noted In onr Southern Indiana exchanges since the first of August the deaths of folly thirty' merchants irom thi section of the State by cholera ail of whom had been to Cincinnati and there became affected by tho disease The only case ot cholera that hss occurred In New Albany the present season wu brought bore from Cincinnati Tho ma 1 °r tly taterir 1 lere they became affected by the disere? I Thi hows the great danger tbm-e is in visit- lng a city or town where cholera Is epidemic Tl dheare still prevail at Cimtinnati I though the deaths me - ' ' though the deaths sre - not co rfisny u to ex excite - cite excite special alarm and we hope soon to be able to announce its entire disappearance from that eit£ The above we copy iroijr the New Albany Ledger of yesterday The following we dip from the Indlsnopolls Herald of the ume dale: Lavkutsbic - Mr Charles H France of Franklin Indians went to Cincinnati some time since to cere fix little girl while she ling treated tor some ailment ttyra pliy pliy-of - of pliy-of tlut city While there both film and lid were attacked with ttis e bolero and died on the $9th Inst Within thetast five or six days there have been two or three deaths from cholera hi Lou Louisville - isville Louisville the victims having Just returned from visits to Cincinnati where the seeds of the disease were no doubt Implanted in their sys systems - tems systems We sre glad to hear however thit there hat been s decided decrease of the dis disease - ease disease in that dty dnrlng the put few days L The Cincinnati Enquirer oTyrslentay'isyi: I " riff w We ere sorry to learn that llie most rx segcrated reports prevail in - the country rela relative - tive relative to the cholera in this city - that it is- even aid that one or two hundred die dully The truth is ilic deaths have not extooded twenty itay snd have been generally much below that mostly confined to those who have been guilty of great imprudence The great msu of the people entertain no apprehension snd think nothing ol the cholera i '

Arrival aad Departure ef Halls AtiTtM MJFI Ml A Hi lfcW Fa Hi M0AX MB Aot Mr1 M r h Hits X 11:1ft v M5FS IMIaM tm r H mo a a fcttFM MlAoH miai uuvn niiDiTa yiMnwMTi fiimti axo oat- VAUAOo DuWBMtOWBVljr IfcttFila Mi Fa Ho UATH MNDATIn WIDUMDATl AHP ntlAATO TtjlortYlIU ud BloonMUialM0 f Ho MlrHo t UUTH HAILT nHbntlte Ml DAILY COURIER THURSDAY MOUIXG KOT 1 ISM The Trath Coale toed Though not in every icdm a rcprezentatlvo bub of tiie Badioal party Wendell PhUllpa la a leader of that party In more sensei than one Ha (a one to whom they look up to for Digestion and advice and though he la often disposed to lead where tlmy dire not than follow they nenally drop their objec objection! - tion! objection! and their team and get close npon his heels Ha 'frequently tells some wholesome troths and makes admissions which the party is not disposed to indorse for the reason that they think their port interests will be injured thereby but ho professes to be and Is In Independent - dependent Independent of their party trammels hta decla declarations - rations declarations are sometimes yalnahloss showing the manifest driit of the party to which he be belongs - longs belongs In his last speech he advocates the Imme Immediate - diate Immediate impeachment and deposition ofllio Presi President - dent President Ho regards It as a measure of vital Im Importance - portance Importance to the sneeess ot the principle of ne negro - gro negro tnlfrsga tnd the other schemes of the Jacobin party Ho says: I am not for waiting two years while a rebel mtlie White House builds up the South Southern - ern Southern aristocracy gives it streagth cohesion organlattkm prosperity and capital I am not for waiting two yean with the States of the South hi the Senate and Home on Ham Ham-- - - Ham-- lin's plan to manipulate the government Into nbnuaslon ' The point to which we would call the atten attention - tion attention of our readers Is the admission that if the President Is undisturbed In his office aad Is permitted to cany out his policy that ho will give the South "strength cohesion organisa organisation - tion organisation proeperity and capital" This la precise precisely - ly precisely what the South wants and what ovary ma material - terial material Interest of the Northern people requires that she should have ' And the North cannot afford to Indulge hi petty persecutions of the Southern States or a controversy in regard to negro suffrage at the expen so of three great intonate Every department ol Northern In In-dnslry - dnslry In-dnslry and development la now groaning under the weight of taxation hereto heretofore - fore heretofore unheard of ' and unfblt In this jbTmmeit Enterprise is crippled the ex ex-' - ' ex-' penar" or lrrrji- are" multiplied the cost of everything is increased and tbohonret laborer who delves and toils is compelled to pay a large part of bis earnings to liquidate the In Interest - terest Interest npon a monsVons debt which cannot otherwise bo sustained There is no hope for the removal of thia oppressive load nntll the "proeperity and capital" of the nation la in in-erreaed - erreaed in-erreaed A certain amount of revenue the government mnet have and it has only the ex existing - isting existing capital to tax Before the rate of taxa taxation - tion taxation can be reduced if the national credit is to be sustained the "prosperity and capital" of the nation must be Increased "Three is no other legitimate mode of accomplishing this result Consequently the North must green and its Industry be loaded with this oppres oppressive - sive oppressive weight of taxation nntll the national proeperity la stimulated and the volume of wealth Is increased ' It is not necessary to comment upon the extraordinary capabilUire of the Sou there States fbr producing wealth They are uni universally - versally universally recognized and concedod We merely wish to refer to the tact which Mr Phillips admits that with a' restored -Union and ex exemption - emption exemption from persecution In the remaining two years of Mr Johnson's term the "proo- parity and capital" of the Southern B tat os would be built up Thia la a truth which la self-evident to ovary intelligent mind and commends itself earnestly to the serious snd unprejudiced consideration of every Northern man Prior to tho war the value of the an annual - nual annual product! of the South waa eatimated by hundreds of millions and constituted five five-eighths - eighths five-eighths of the exports of the nation Suppose that we now had such an amount of wealth In that section npon which to impose taxation how great and Instantaneous would he the re relief - lief relief to the tax-payers of tlia North? And will the possible triumph of the dogma ol negro suffrage Justify the North In rejecting so great a boon? We' cannot believe that they tie so blind so stupidly blind and infatuated as to believe it Tho prosperity of tho na- - - tion Indeed ita salvation' depends npon the I abandonment of tho radical programme ud the restoration of tho Union On Tobacco Market! With the transactions yesterday at the fonr auction tobacco warehouses onr tobacco year expired ' Owing to the poor quality of lugs and low leaf offered the market Car nearly the whole year lias ruled dull with a constant tendency to lower rates Good leaf baa been scarce aa well as desirable selections The prices for these qualities have hem moderately steady at foil prices The aggregate sales for the past year hava been £7878 hbds against 47677 hhds for the corresponding period hut year" 1864-& Tho quantity sold the previous year 18G8-4 aggregate 68823 hhds The - roiucof tecTtobaoco sold thi you amount to the handsome aum of $M79717 OS against the ram of $5895684 69 for the correspond corresponding - ing corresponding period of the year previous 1861-5 while I the aggregate value of the teles for the year 1868-4 amounted' to tho unprecedented aum of $11061901 97 The receipt fix tho put year anm np 94111 hogsheads agalnft the same period last you of 88000 hogsheads Tha present stock on hand ta reported to ha 47G6 bogsghesds against 9500 hogsheads for of the present stock on hand ta held on private account T In onr commercial reports thU morulug ill ha firand tha aggregate scle fer ih put will be firand tha aggregate month at each of the tobacco auction ware warehouses - houses warehouses with the value of the same in cub aa well u tho aggregate sales at each warehouse fix the put year snd the value of the together with a comparison with' tha opera operations - tions operations of previous yean To Lxavb Ua - While we have bad many 'valuable accessions to our population during the last twelve mouth yet durldg that time wa have also lost many excellent citizens who have firand tt to their Interest to locate else elsewhere - where elsewhere To the list iff the tatter we mnch re regret - gret regret to y wftwlll in a few days hero to add tho name ef onr valued friend CoL Wm Preston Johnston who goes to Nhw Orleans to connect himself with tha established bouse of - Dsvis Sewell A Co which la largely engaged In tarnishing supplies fix railroad and steam steam-bout - bout steam-bout engineers and in tha sate of agricultural implements OoL Johnston win cirry with Mru to his new home the earnest wishes iff hosts of friends tor his sneosss Hla scceulon to the business and social circles ol the Cres Crescent - cent Crescent City we know wilt be appreciated t3T Lieut Gov S T Jacob was among the distinguished vbHon in oiT'wity Tester- day He seemed to be in fluefacdlth

te In fact many could pay their subscription to toe stock In this way 1 Nearly all the trade ud travel of the county would find the way to yonr city over Uita road besides a huge increase of products which Ua presence would create Bnbceriptions have been secured and the materials will be in readiness to bail a Cntlio Cntlio-llo - llo Cntlio-llo church here next spring whl -h it is thought by many will cause considerable lucresM in our population u that d mon£t mon£t-tlon - tlon mon£t-tlon ta femoui for having good iclvicfj In a word if our ponntationJVuiill only be properly Impressed with thq imporlinco ud profit ot tola enterprise it would not be so tardy in Its moveinunts OBSERVER lu the monthly report fix September of the agiicnlturil department we find toe follow- HY FBOCESS FOB DUSOLYIYS Boxes USED AS FEniLIUllS The importance immon bones as craln-caUarc canid hardly be' extolled' tt would be presuming npon the intelligence of onr farmers to ray more thu to reeom reeom-mond - mond reeom-mond its practical application Thera exist however ume obstacles which yet prevent wule bones nearly always elicap ud witia easy ranch from being generally nsed 1 be great distances in the mr West and other in- ' convenience render f form expensive and borne or dissolving till tasi chan re - Professor Ilienbot in'Rossis hss however ' lately dtaouveied a method fix dissolving them which most prove highly economical and uitablc lu nnietlled conntri 'a where owing to the great abundance of forests wood-ashea are cheaply secured Indeed are almost always at band - This new process of treating bone eonaista of mixing thorn with wood-ashes and staked caustic lime and keep keeping - ing keeping toe mixture eonstutiy moist As In the preparation of lye fix manufeetnriiig soap toe alkaline carbonates in tbe sslies such as -carbonate of potaaoa fire by tha action of eanatic lime converted into free canific po po-tassa - tassa po-tassa attacking ud quickly dissolving the bones The following practical example will illus illustrate - trate illustrate the necessary proceed ing: Bnppose the wood-asbos to contain shoot 10 per cut carbonate of potass end that 4000 ' pounds of bones are to be worked up thu we take 4000 pounds of Mhes 600 pounds of canstte lime end 450ft pounds or water a ' ditch soma two fret deep of inch width and length M to hold 6000 pounds of the mixture ta dug and near U a second ditch being soma 29 per cent larger and both lined with boards The lime is tom staked and when crumbled to a powder mingled with the wood-ashes ud 2000 pounds of bones piled np in layers and covered np with the maM In the amaller ditch 8600 pounds-of water added and the whole left to1tself From ' time-to time $mall qnuUttea of water are added to keep tlie mast moist -As soon m It ta firand that' tbe bones sre so fiu- decomposed that v en passed between the fingers they era soil and crumble the second portion t a the other 2000 pounds of bones is brought Into the larger ditch ud covered in layers with tire first mesa and left to decompose Alter the whole nun has undergone 6 'com 'composition - position 'composition it la suffered to dry by remo -iglt and lastly to Ikcllltate Ita redaction to puw puw-der - der puw-der mixed with 4000 pounds ot dty tnrf or some other dry vegetable earth The mixture ta repeatedly stirred about with a shovel and may at once be brought npon the fields Ux Ux-nnre - nnre Ux-nnre prepend tone will contain abont 12 per cent of tribasic phosphate of lime (S CaO Poft) 9 per emt ot alkaline Mils and 6 per cut of nitrogenous matter- This manure mint from Ita composition ' produce an admirable effect uxra grape-vines Liebig in generally reoommending this new fertiliser thinks an addition of gypum an Improvement fix many kinds of fruits i- Texas va Ohio - Wa may that at no Tcxm will kaa been folly demonstrated by 'lc-rs Hughes te Swartz of onr eiiy that "'fun lie arueesefolly packed The above nnic have ben foraishlng beef to vessels in onr port packed throughout the summer month CapL Lillie Is now setting up hi- machinery tor putting up beef In hermetically acuieri can of fitly pounds In each can We predict lor Capt L soccesa -in hla new euteiurue Where fine oysters can be supplied at twenty cents per bandied green turtle weighing loin bundled pounds st 94 and beef cattle weigh weighing - ing weighing seven hundred pounds at $20 per head wa cu see no good reason why the road to fortune ta not open to mu of capital ud en enterprise - terprise enterprise In no State of the Union cu be firand suck pasturage u in Texas ud her almost llmit llmit-leM - leM llmit-leM prairies can hardly be exhausted fix gen generations - erations generations to come consequently the fecilttius fix stock raising are greater here thu almost! any other section of the Americu continent Tbe wealth of Weitcrn Texas consists mainly iu stock cattle homes end sheep The ex- Eunse of shipment to a profitable market ta or ' ' owever a targe item on toe debit aide and ta also attended with a good deal of trouble By toe proceM of slaughtering and packing here if aneeeMfolly performed e fer less expenso will be incurred then by shipping on foot - Indtanota Times II Trovatore (a Journal somewhat incorrect in its items u may be seen bv its speaking of "Zllda" m M Gounod's new opera) gives ' currency to a report that Signor Roatlnl tor whom all manner of occupation to now un unceremoniously - ceremoniously unceremoniously ent ont ta about to write a cantata for the inauguration of the Frenc?i Exhibition next year The- same Journ praises aw promising Signora Lassarl who tinging at Milan announces that the dead silence' so stonily of lata maintained hi Venice silica the Anslrtan occupation ta about to bo broken by the reopening of tlie splendid Ten Ten-tro - tro Ten-tro Venice tor which it ta added DuntooUi'J "Maria Padilla" lias been selected