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Sorrn BRSD st. .IosSnh Co. Ind .,pr!9j.


The Texas question is .ccomng the principal
topic of conversation here and the progress Of
events al Washington, as they are un:oGcd 10
the pu;lic eve, is watched with intersc interest.
Forced, as ,Eis question has been, suddenly upon
the American People at this :imc with all its
prehmlnarics settled. and even the Treaty Itself
almost prepared for signing III The hidden privacy
ot Council Chambers, ana with all the secrecy
and darkness that cnsnr0ud The ncyoti.tlOns OF
European Gospo;s reckless Of the pubc will, II
would hare been expected, ii ough. ~ haze bceR,
that the whole Country, and most especially ihc
North East and the NoTtn-West, should have
condemned it uncquivocaliy, and spoken out
against it as with one voice. The Peoples dc
srcS, whether on the one side or The Other should
have had fair and luli liberty Of expression and
declaration before this Treaty was concOcted
Considering tho auspices under which 1t is now
iiuar as 4 !irc.bfand before the Country, with all
the attendant circumstances, 1t Goes seem as i!
AL parties should have ualicd IN its dlsapproval.
But | regret to say that many OF the Loco-f oco
leaders in this region, and some OF the most emi-
ncnt ones too, have come cut openly for Annexa-
ton. Their presses also have an evident leaning
that way, apparently only waiting for the best
iliIlc ID ulllltdSh. VII lilc wings
and Their papers, with scarcely an exception that
hear of have spoken ont lcarlcssly and frankly
against this slas; card of T'ycrs,n. In the al
ionng State of Michigan the Whig presses are
unanimously against ii, while several Of the op-
positc papers, in the interior especially, have
thrown rhe Texas banner 10 The breeze. On Il
full and thorough discussion of the question iii
the Nortl,-IVc>t however. feel convinced that
the People would rcpudlalc it without regard TO
party distinctions. We shall sec


Cute an Important change has recently been
made in the operation OF o,r State App aiscment
or Relief Loans The President Judge of this
Circuit has al the recent Courts Nn acqmcsccncc
with the Supreme Couri decisions IN the Bronson
and McCrackcn cases. directed the Shcrlils Ia
sell propertv, when levied on, under the State
laws that we're in force at the limc when the
contract was made; and | understand that the
Judges in other Circuits are giving sm arordcrs
The eftc of this is, that upon all contracts made
by Indianians previous to February Is, ISL,
when placed in Judgment and execution issued
thereon, property levied on viii be sold unrcscrv
cdly TO the highest bidder; on those contracts
made between February l3, 1911, and January
Is. 1912, the sale will be governed by the "haJ-
appraiscment law :" between the latter date and
February % 1913 under the "fwothirdS ap
praisc,ncnt law and on all contracts made
since the last nalned day, hy the present rcc'
law" which allp;gs property turned out by the
defendant to be sold Il, two-ihrds It's appraised
vaiuc; hut whcn tnrncd out hy the judgment
crctitor, directs that it shall not he struck oil at
less than the whole apprasemcnt The obvious
effect of this new rule will be the collection Of
many judgments which have been locked up
for years, but il will also insure the sacrifice oi
a large amount of property under The ShcTh's
hammer, and cannot fail, in some instances at
least To ruin honest debtors who yet stru,-
cIino To settle their liabilities, and who, ere laig
would have worked through. It's ctircts, how
ever, will not bc in any degree as oppressive as If
lis ncy role had been laid down two years ago,
for sincc then many old debts have been com
promised and settled.


/ have much to tell you in relation 10 our
manufacturing establishments here which have
hccn erected and put in operation within the last
wear. and also OF Others which are contemplated,
but this must rcscrcrvc for another letter. Sui
fec it now to say that every department "' Trade,
mechanical and mercantile, has received quick
enlnr impulse; labor is III brisk demand, every
nook and corner of our village and It's suburbs
completely filled with inhabitants, many OF them
new. conlers, and every thing seems 10 wear Il
brsll and thriving aspect. > =.


So,-ru BEND St. Josep, Co. Ind. April gS, 1871.


The cause OF Education, valuable as 1t Is in Its
impulses ard benehccn in It's progress and ei-
ects has, ior thc las, few years rithcr langns'cd
than advanced in this portion Of the West. The
c,uscs which have retarded it arc too well known
10 need rccaptulation here. Bat am happy now
in being able to state that q healthier ieeing on
tbis subject pcryadcs the whole community
School houses are being erected, aud schools re-
gularly kept, in Districts where, I'LL lately,
school teacher has been "A rera aciS. The people
100 arc, in many instances taxing themselves vo-
unfairly for this purpose ana when yon see this
done and borne cheertuly yon may safely con-
cludc that matters have taken the right start In
This village ALSO they have been cmulatlng East
crn towns by having and keeping up ga High
school, The principal is Mir. c. NJ. Wright,
l,tely citizen OF your Stale, and lis popularity
;s evidenced by the fact that its pupils at the last
term numbered over one hundred. The term
closed not long since by al exhibition in the pre-
scnce of one of the largest non-polltlcal assem-
b,nes that ever met in this village, at which some
f,rfy or fifty compositions and addresses were de-
livered by the pupils, closed by an original vale
diclory snokcn by C. W. Lewis, one OF The schol-
ars. which would have done honor TO some OF
vour Eastern college graduates. This was fol-
lowed by an interesting exhibition of the pupils OF
ihc District School One more fact will show
some of the spirit that is felt in relation to this
cause away out here i'll the wilderness West.
Every county in this State has u Seminary Fund,
which, when it becomes large enough, is directed
by law to he cxpcndcdin the erection Of County
Seminary. This fund which, by the bye, is made
Up by fines, forfeited rccognlzanccs, &c.-thns
causing the penalties of Vice to assist the cause
of Virtuc-having at last reached $500, the
County Board recently concluded TO 90 on with
the building when tho citizens of our neighbor-
= ing village Mishawaka, came forward and offered
a donation made by themselves 10 the amount of
twenty.thrcc hundred dollars ii the Board would
locate the Seminary there All these facts COM
binc to prove that there is aspirt, ali energy, and
an interest manifested in educational matters in
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