Daily Wabash Express, Volume 19, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 13 May 1870 — Page 2

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da ment ceedi-O-driest and, most technical argument^ the iWiwl aWooipVl ^(knd 'BttiMC

were been'tolerated in the Pratt. J.) and to 'the inost finished attff cogent reasoningrrrtlie eime constant, apathetic attention. .Xhe. last.day of "the term was'reached, and the' about to adjourn, wluen^be Btr^gpraroee, and, addressing the tibn'bf vctice and,matfner tfcat»' Krt Witt barely mastered, said h5 hud traveled 6,000 miles to argue a case that stood

ions that the case ..should be heard: if^ it, went over to the, next term, ^it /vpjllp in vol"e art inoonvenenice tocouBset-and expense to tM& parties that'^ w^ia^moug, alqiost to a denial of justice the circumstances, he felt piavileged to aslfthe Cpurt ttriait one daf

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JUDGES OF 80P&EVS COtTBT,

CHARLES A. BAY.

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Tfarillli^^ir^iiAnal History

fjoriiiK tiie lefm Qplhe SnpremeC6ftrt of the United4n Dtfcfefaber, 1856, a atranger occnpied tfw**n»e

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visual horizon. His general appeal might LwftJmn ffltalngiied .M.ioWX*j Hight, above medjum ^figure, large ana i&Sfcinly: moverfeifife, awkward gift ion, dark anfl edged with yellow—cat-eyes in the dark

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After a bripf. consultation,, the, |J uqg$6 acceded toXhe request atad it was. an* nouriced that, on the following day, the Court would hear the arguments ,in the case of Field against Seabary.,

More than the usual number of spectators were present on the following day and there was something more than curi osity to hear this lawyer, who had often been heard of, but never heard before in that court. The consciousness, ,of this curiosity and expectation embarassed liim in the opening of his speech, but, his mind fairly in motion, soon worked itself free, and his phlegmatic tfeinpframent glowed to its core witli flamelesa heat For two hours he held the undivided at tention of the court in an argument that was pure law. He had that precision of statement, nkill and nicety'in the "handling of legal terms, which ^modulate jttw very tones of the voice, •and.- by which lawyers instinctively measure a la wye that readiness iphich. reveals fin* intellectual trsfiniiie that -"lias become Second nature—that sell-contained confidence that is based on the broadest preparation —that Llcjgiilafe ai^angemjnl ^lctapfes the assnr?nC« tha&, btick of' eror^Kiproposition, is a solid column to support it if attacked—arid that stretigth ind symmetry of expression which carry the conviction that, behind utterance, tttere is fullness of knowledge that floods every sentence with meaning, and an unconscious reserve of power which gives to every word a vital foroe.

was

known to all present t^iat the^str,anger was Rufus A. Ixjckwood, of San .Francisco and he was that day, in the estimation of at least one of the Judges who heard him, the equal of. the best lawyer in the United States. Though this was his first (and only) appearance in the United States Supreme Court, his brief had Seen before the court in the case of the Mariposa land grant, (Fremont's) had gained the case, and been closely followed iti the opinion. In examining that brief, Caleb Cushing-then'A ttorney General—exclaimed in admiration of its legal learning and research, "Who this man Lockwogdf!

He was"boin in 1311, in~Stanifqru Connecticut, apd his true name was Jonathan A. Jessitp. Ateighteen he Was a.student in Yale College, in the junior clkss, distinguished among his leljowa for his pre* ficiencv in Latin and pure mat hematics, and lor his familiar acquaintance With English classics, in the midst .of the term, for aoine reason known wily to himself, without the consent.olJiisfrjendM, liejleft college and enlisted as a sailor-on a United States man-of-war. Iti 'hfe first cruise lie saw one of his jnessmdtes tied up and flogged.for a trivial fault. Outraged b-y the injustice of the punishment, and shacked by its hrntality, he determined to desett ana succeeded in doing so when liis vessel returned to New York after a short voyage to the Bahamas., He (Ranged his name-toJlufus a Lock wood, taking his mother's family name worked^liis wa" to Buffalo on tne Erie "Ciihal, and too passage on one the lirat schooners- that made the voyage of the lakes, to (Chicago, Chicago then (1830) was a fr op tier village, the solitude of the prairies ,o^i one side almost as unbroken: as thkiiof the lake'on the other. Lockwood arrived there bareheaded, wnllont m6ney Of friends.— A farmer from' the interior •ccidettttilly became acquainted with him,and believing, there was material in liim for a country him in hii to his hbme at Ronfney, County,,

.schoolmaster, took him in his fiirm-Wagon pfecanoe

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Lockwood taught alternate terms at ney and RoBltoy, a villsfeein'ftn_ai oiit ing county^ school to thg study of

find RoB Hoy, a village in ^ftnai county^'detoting l»i!} timtf out of ol to thg study of medjeityv ^„friend writes: ii"A1jf'• "For some time every thing went yr^ll. but' some unpleasantness trrcme ^between jjo||kn^his

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time lie bad determined to and, borrowing a copy of

Blackstone, almost literally committed its text. His country school of fro® ^e*en to twenty promising to go to Crawfo] the flouris" did not tl schools, anu j. pied by one. Lockwood opened il» opposition got into a newspaper quarrel with his competitor studied law by night got married without & dollar in tha-worldj was admitted to practice "by the Circuit

self in his profession. He did not wait

landlord, asalawyer an unpaid tuition bill as a set-off, but judgment was given against him. He was unable to give an appeal bond, and the bed be and his wife slept oagrm sold by the constable for less than ten oollars. No incidents of his life seem to have made a deeper impression on him than the flogging of his messmate and the constable's sale of his bed.

In his second case he was, fortunately, not his own client—fortunately lost it, and appealed to the Supreme Court. Never was a case involving so small an amount more thoroughly jrep%«^

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warrior habit which so dwtiuguisned him in lAter life brought on a sharn colHBttar* Wifirmt htsitatimi Tieismffflrwr focJ^wney, of the Qol«fe*U days^io whirtrpfflh the snow a foot dJej£ tti crossing 'the eight-mile prairie' he lost his way, and Bevel-

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nearer his end

until he went down in the Central America. He reached my father's about 10 o'clock at night, with his hands and feet sobadlv frozen that,though erirr remedy was resorted to, he was disabled for the rest of the winter. As soon as he was able to walk, he commenced a school. We had, at that time, a debating society in Ronnie?, that waswtended by all the 'natives.' Lockwood did not seem to have the -leant capacity for extempOt*. aneous speaking: but every Saturday night he was regularly on hand witha half hour'R sp^fcoh thoroughly committed fand delivered without reference to manuscript. Some of these efforts gave promise of his maturest powers. You remember his solemn manner, his deep, sepulchral tones, and the force and energy with which he pressed his strong points They are all associated, in my mind, with the debates at the old log schoolhouse." .. --.. ..

Sjat iCT ill wbich he passed his examination, ith the exhaustive argument he made

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im known to the court and bfa1 as

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the United Statn!

Fpx said |)f -Jbnedf his own speeches "if it reads peUr it is a poor speech.*' in reading LoqjtigpodVppeech cp. jhi¥ trial, it^enis, wM the Exception tire law armament, dj^finattfry and overwrought but no perusal^Sin give an adequat? conception of ift JiVing effect. It wnp level with the ofcnion feryid with tire excitement offihejliour. The orator fairly met and tume^pack the tide of popular passion, by the greater passion of his

swelled to th sunk to the autumnal win rible. He poured the 'gallA of years of

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at others

filing of an

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thit -had' contritmted'moDey to seCttre a ,^[jp statement pf tlAi^aw .was ap2lExhaustive, rinsing the distinctions between mnrdar, ansnm gMeir, ex^ disable and justifiable homicide, with aUsgipiiri —htilif f—i wlftunialiiaf precision. In shaping the testimony, he seemed to make his own case and in ap-

one who heara it said, "It was the best {jury speech ever madron this continent !—or any other I" Frank was acquitted. •The case was for Lockwood more :Er^Me's^2nra o^2&eew' itwas yiy^esL^imfeh, ,-wentv-six, from obscurity and neglect,

For a few years his professional bus iness was large but, at that time every man in the "West" was a speculator, and in the revulsion that followed the flush

the spring of 1842, he deposited what IBM, JW air benefit of his cred^u^«M»ing only a few hundred d6lfar?r pnrang his son at a Calfibfrc school in Vincennea disappeared. He had"ebmmunicMe^ hi,

City ofWexiw. For soine mbnthshe had devoted himseifto the of Spanish and the cifril law but itkroald'httvebeen as rational to have expected -to make a fortune teaching Mexican children their mother-tpugue aa in the practice of their proiC^ibn. He was simply flying from his demon.' He had no acquaintance In Mexico! it is not probable that he made any. To add.ib hia hdplessnot long after his arrival, he was

attacked with inflammatory rheumatism, and saw his small means melt away, until he had barely enough kft tojpay a to Ve*a felly re1!

jto the embarassment he experienced at

.ppearance and coarse, ill-fitting clothes burden to him oppressed by a deep lense of ppverty ana friendlessness—lu&

one loteqwMjrtjqfraarkness J8 Jned by tne light. He had not the mrage to state to the court that he was treseut for examination, asjw, aJLtprn' ni„ the accidental presence of the Judge his circuit, who made the necessary

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jof. mnjif^wrtiitdBidtW^' nJIMitW :haugea manner toward him, and transited him^rom^^|m^r^ ropy

His new positiqn,'however, brought him to new clients at Thorntown He_ knew pone of the arts by which success is conciliated. He was nfevfcf the next friend jof the Clerk, the favorite of the Sheriff, jthe intimate of the Judge, familiar with Jurors, nor the confidant of witnesses. He,

'counters of social intercouse, and avoided jthem. He became moody, reserved, ab istracted, studioug._Ngv^r jee^ingr^isi

ettl^dJMbtt^fdMB-not tlis jdeep love and ardent study of the law as !a science, were rather bar than aids to this immediate success and his poverty aA ^nrel ieved., «He\ w»9refufled) eredife ifor Tillage Itore he wrpteh t^ie, iM^e.^ the,.ow^aril in his !fcplfel*Ptfatoes in the ashes, with salt for a luxury. His home was never a happy one. He knew "the law was a jealous misiress," and in

iyoung. Albert S. White, of Lafayette, In diana, had become acquainted with Lock' wood

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jto Lafayette.^ His opportunity at length jcame. Soon after the Presidential election of 1836, a homicide w&S ioihmilted at La ifayette that caused the most intense ex icitement. Mr. J. H. W. Frank—a very young man, the junior editor jof a^^enfo^c ftaperAad Voh small wager from Mr. John Woods, prominent merchant, on the vote of the •city of New York. Frank called for ^settlement, and was accused by Woods of being in possession of the returns at the time the bet was made. A quarrel. and rencounter ensued, in which Frank kill ed Woods by stabbing him with a pocket' iknife. Woods was a man of high-socialpos ition, and his partv regarded him ast martyr, whose blood was to be avenged White and Lockwood and John Pettit were engaged for the defense. White ,and Pettit prudently, perhaps, insisted that the sa(^:course w^ j^iriajuhe 'trial," get the prisoner released on bail and forfeit ther j)ond. Lockwood urged a speedy trrafcjsthat it was better Frank should take^fc&phance at once of suffer ing the penaltyjjpf the law than to be a wanderer ov^r'jjiihe earth, liable, to be hunted down any hoyr of hiH life. Frank coincided with wns view and Pettit and WJjite, though continuing /tb counsel witli Lockwoo£ took no further part in" the active management of the defense The case wfe,, $)ntilliied one term, on motion Of tlifef&te, and Lockwood had ample titae Bar •preparation. W lifen the case came ^*off for trial, '"wiward A flannegan was employed to assist Lockwood, aihd Henry S.'Lane and4saaC Nay lovippeare^w«h W. S. Bryant for the pros|ecutionfH4'iwaK^ per6apsr th«mo3t remarkable criminal ,trial that has ever occurred in Tnd&ntfj'^ Of the^punsel en-

_o new un—i, and went

from thifer^Pi'Nachitoches, where he had a cousin living. He resumed the name of Jessup, ana again applied himself to the Btudy of the civil law and the Louisiana code.

After spending a year al. Nachitochea in study and occasional pradude, turned to New Orleans,

Heha^ tion,»R,. oath,when heaccn room a

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with his most merciless riidicnle, and tor ttifred with hiscruelest sarcasm—-the man who had sold his bed under execution from the shadow of whose memory he was fleeing. Dreading an exposure of his i&anged name, he instantly quitted the room. A few days afterwards, Sam Judahj a distinguished lawyer "from Indiana, met him on the street, wearing a kraw-hat, "negro shoes,"and clothing to match. He wanted to borrow twenty dpllaretb redeem his trunk. Judah had 'but tea with him. "It is of no consequence," replied Lockwood, declining the ten, ana went on and on, until a recruit11 ing station attracted his attention. Fairly at bay, he saw the words ^Twenty Debars Bounty"—hesitated a moment— thea enliBted as a common soldier in the jl$Nted States army took the bounty and {t$yi the* bill of his lodging, and was sent to join his regiment in the Bed Kver( Arkansas) country.

His friend Hannegair was at that timfe inj the United States Senate and learnilTgof Lockwood's enlistment, obtained ifrom President Tyler-an order for his discl)argfcjwh}eh,h*#qnt l»Ba. with $W0, ktndan earnest entreaty to go home to his

Lockwood afterwards repaid by. apresent of $10,000. After

an absence of nearly' t"hree years_ he rc turned to La'fayetle, found his wild land 'sufficiently advanced in value to relieve him from lebt, an4 resumed his professictn.

I His fri^nd, Mr. E. L. Beard, was mat ing preparation to go to Califwnia, and £opkwooa proposed to join him. He thoaght he Could do well by shipping a lot of liquors froip New York in small •bottles, and peddling them to miners! Beard had determined to go through' Mexico to Mazatlan Lockwood, not wishing to renew this acquaintance with the Mexicans, took passage around the Horn. Before parting, the friendB provided themselves each with a bugle of 'the same tones, that they might hear and ^answer each other's calls if they should at any time get lost in the wilderness of California. Beard had .been in California some months, and was living at the Mission of San Jose, when, one day, he heard the iamiliar sound of Lockwood's bugle. Answering th'e call, he soon niet' Lock wood—covered with mud, gun on shoul der, knife and pistols in belt, bugle in hand-r-like a modern Don Quixote going to summon the surrender of a castle! with a sailor companion, loaded down with bandlesr, for a Sancho Panaa. Lockwood had suffered severely from scurvy !during the voyage.

He sopn came up to San Francisco and for.sijX months was clerk in a law office, where he not only furnished »the law but ,swept the office, made the fixes, and in all respects complied with his agreement to ''make himself generally useful." He received his wages every evening every night found him in a gambling saloon every .morning penniless, His legal services were "appreciated in the office, though' he w«s tepared ho humiliation and at the end of his term he was patronized with the offer of a partnership if he wnuld stay a year. "I have fulfilled ,my contract to the letter," he replied, "and you have paid me as you agreed, but I would not remain another hour—" The close of .his speech would not look well in print.

He entered into a law partnership with I—rr-and which lasted until there was-one division of profits. In the allotment to Lockwood there was $5,000 of State scrip, which he agreed to sell to one of his partners at a price named. When he brought in'the warrants next morning, their value had declined—at least, in his partner's estimation—and Lockwood tore them up and left the office. For a month or two he worked as a day laborershoveling sand, coaling steamers and doing any thing that came to hand. While he was thus engaged an old acquaintance sought him out, to_ get him to try an important laW suit, involving title to real estate in the city. Lockwood at first refused to go said he was earning an lionest Jiving and did not want to be disturbed. Ilis friend persisted, and, at length, banteringly offered to double his daily wage? if he would go to work on his case. Tliis proposition struck Lockwood favorably, and he acceded to it, stipulating that he should be paid every day, and that at no time afterward should any other fee be ofl'ered him, directly or indirecly "for," said he, "I want none of my' partner's earnings, and they shall have none of mine." Hetried tne case successfully the profit involved was of great value but he held his client tohjA contract, and his daily wages was his only fee.

After the term of his "partnership" expired lie opend an office alone, and was soon after employed by Palmer, Cook & Co., and through that connection was introduced to a general and lucrative practice. Mi-. Palmer was at San Jose in the winter of 1851, during the session of the Legislature at that pi ace,anxious to secure the best possible legal services for his firm, and particularly for a test case that involved the "water-lot titles, .Government reserve." &c.

One ^evehing General McD-t— and' Judg were in his room and it occurred to him that he would take their opinion as to who was the best land lawyer in San Francisco. Handing each a slip from the margin of a newspaper, he a^ked them to write the name of tne man entitled to that pre-eminence in their judgment. He was surprised to find the same nan}G written by each: and more surprised .to find that it was a name— Lockwood—of which he had never heard. He returned to San Francisco the following day, to find this strange lawyer, who, in a single base had impressed two of the finest legal minds in the State with a sense of his superiority. The interview and^iia. result will be given as nearly as they can be recalled, in Mr. Palmer's wenda: "J |oand lockwood in an unfurnished ^ffice, apparently absorbed in a black-let-*ter looking law-book. I introduced myself,and told him the case in which I .wished to employ him. There was no need togo into details, as the case was well known by its title, having been freely discussed by the newspapers. Lockwood, scarcely, looking np from hia book, said,

I don't think you have got any case.' Piqued by his abrubtness, I answered, 'When you have given the subject as much attention as I have, perhaps you

Ul beof a different opinion.' 'If you ul come to-morrow morning, he relied, 'I will give

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a final answer.'—

iVhenl went back lie was in the same xieition. It did not seem to me that he lad moved, or turned a leaf of the volume before, him. Without addressing a word directly to me, except to acknowledge my presence, he said, as if reading aloud to himself. 'X conveyance that is void is void forever.' Not relishing that application of law, and nettled by his manner, I remarked that the counsel for the other side would probably be able to find that principle without his assistance.

Without heeding my went on, in tbu afpe 'bat the sovereign-™ act, may give vi convey," "aC"

he re-J

and applied for

of lighi exi" ture scriptioi conveys "Precisely. win it.' "From the moment h« announced his position,T felt that lie would win it but

of brandy

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ly saw in the court could expect, f'r&eive no fahad humiliated

man whom he

bciaime dull and stolid within^.** ti-ial, he was luminous, ready upofceVepp.propasition and I was eoosUntlyJtskw^ iiysel^ "How long:c»*ih^i»old xwt?" The case was on trial several days^iour lawyers, as able as any in the State, were ,0» the other side aMxi do tatt pemeitbdr a si]^le instance: in whack Xioekwaod1 was takett at disadvantage^ either in argument atttborityv or repartee. He held oat, mwle hia wdrdh .good, and #ta the cad£"'fl ri b"..:--, it was knmediately ratained by Palmer, Cook

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laced some clothing: and money in the the Captain withorders to ,smuggle them into LockwoOd'i room ,'whenhia! fit was over.' Arrrived at Sidney, ha set out to walk :tQ: Melbourne—about seven' hundred miles—throughi wide stretches of uninhabited bush, over spurs of mountains where there was not so much as a bridle-path a journey so lqnely and wild and idesolate, that no orther white, man even voluntarily'made it atone and on foot.

He had always a great admiration for English law reports,-and a1 high opinion of English: courts. He loved the old common law ^ystemof pleading the distinction between law and equity proceedings and had little respect for. the code of "law made easy," with- its one focm of civil action and unlimited liberty /to amend. He thought that in an English court he would get .into a purer atmoa? phereof law, wher« the cases Wouidfiot be argued by the newspapers, and prejudged by the public, that makes and unmakes courts. Hewa8 not destined, however, to have any such experience, for a law of the colony prohibited any one, .not a subject of the queen, from practicing law until after-a residence olj seven years in Australia., He remained in Australia two yefirs. At one time he. was bookkeeper to a mercantile house at anqther, clerk in a law office, from whioji he was discharged for jelusing to copy a paragraph into a brief which, he said, was not law j.and for some months he was employed in the lonely, but not uncongenial occupation, of herding sheep. After his return, speaking of his trip tp Australia, a id "I know you thoiight I was crazy, but I was not. It was th.e sanest act. pf my life. I felt that I must do Kme great penance for my sins and follies. I wanted {to put a gulf between me and the past." Soon after he arrived, at San 'Francisco, he was .offered a very large fee and ^contingent fortune tp appear for the "Peter Smith titles." It was a temptation, for he was very poor, and wanted money. wanted still more the eclat, of agreat lawsuit, and thirsted for its excitement, but, on a collateral case, he had once given §n opinion against the validity of the Peter Smith sales and, from a sense of professional honor, declined the eniployment, and. refused to reexamine the question. ,j..... ,,

In the fkll of 1857 he was again prepar ing to go East on pro/eseiotial, business To one of his friends who tried to dissuade him.from going, l^e said: I will stay, if you insist, but I feel that I shall go mad if I do."

He sailed as he had intended. At As* pinwall he connected ^vith the. ill-fate Central America, on her la^t voyage.— Diu-ing the storm he toqjc his turn with other passengeii it 'the ,*pun^ps uhtil his strength was exhausted. Coming up to rest he was met by one of hk bfficfers, aricf ordered back to work. tf»-.

Sir," he answered, "f will" Work no more." 3 His work was done. He went into his state-room, closed the door, and never was seen again. In a short time the wreck went down.

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and thought- paid large ieea, hit services were considered cheap. large professional gains •ojriy fed his passion for gambling. Again auk. war with himself and the world, he determined in the summer !6f 1853, to br^uk tiff his fesooiations and go to Australia. Some of ibis ditntfl subsidised., the.

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vessel to remain in port a week after Lockwobdhad gone on board, to. see if lie would not change ,his mind. /When lit. was evident he would not, one of them, visited bitan. to inquire if he had any money. 'Yes,' he answered, taking a quarter-eagle from hi» popk«* *nd^hro«! ing it overboard, wiH r*»aU frd«.' His friend, Mr. B^ird, hoW*ter, had

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After his great penance his character grew more subdued, his aims more rational, his life more steadfast. He no •lohger sought excitement and forgetftil ness in disfeapitioti and gambling. He had always clung to the idea ofimmortality—but rather as a hope than a faithj"and there was not a scar on his soul of which he- was not painfully conscious. His tired heart wanted 'rest, and he was be ginning tojseek it—wheressw^TRfmjr^other restldss spirits liave sought it—under the shadow of atlthbrity^ in the teachings of Rome. Not for hjmi though,-was ever ithe undisturbed peace of the faithful, and when the devil in his blood arose, who can tell the agony Of his: soul's conflict? Heretured from Washington after the argument of Field against Seabury, the spring of 1856.

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aot as,o«r Agent. Business light and honorable Bays $30 per day address R- MONROE TOIRIRED'yA

CO., Pittsburgh, Ph.

tmt ElJ^PLACEP love Essays for Yotmg Men, free, in Sealed envelopes, Howard AsSoOiation, BoxP, Philadelphia,Pa

TDSTCHOMANCY, OR SOUL CHAJtMING. Jt A wonderful book it shows how either Sex can fascinate any one they wish. iastantlyi" (AU possess this poWer.) It teaohes bow to gefcTieh, Alchemy',Sorceries, Incuitottonsi Demonology, Magic,,Mesmerism, Spiritualism, Marriage Guide, and a thousand wonders. Mailed for 25 cents. Address T. WILLIAM .4 OOit Publishers, South 7th, street Philadelphia, Pa.

Money Cannot Buy It ^or Sight is Priceless!!

Manufactured by

J* E. SPENCER & CO., N.

Which are now offered to the public, are pronouncod by all th« celebrated Opticians of the yfbrld to be the

»OHT PERFECT, Naturtil,. Artificial help to the human eye ever known. They are ground tinker their own supervision, from miaute .Crystal Tebbles melted together, and derive their name, "Diamond,"1 bft account of their hardness ant brilliancy...

The Scientific Principle On which they are constructed brings the core or centre of the lens directly in front of the eye. producing a clear and distinct visisn, as in the natural, healthy qight, and preventing

Tlioy areHountedin the %est nianner In frames of the best quality of all materials used Jjr that purpose. *Their Finish and Durability can not be surpassed.

CAUTION.—None genuine unless bearing their trade markOstamped on every frame J. B. TILLOTSON, Jeweler and Optician, Sole Agont for Terra Hauto, Indiana, from whom they can only be obtained. These goods are not supplied to Pedlers, at any price. marZldwly

*fi

BOOTS AND SHOES.

JOHN B. LUDOWIC1 &£€0.

DEALERS IN O

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ii.ijp-wj iiv

Jlliiffj,'

Requires immediate attention as. neglect ofteu results in an incurable Lung Disease.

Brown's Broaehlal Troche* will most invaiiably give in

stant relief. For BRONCHITIS, ASTHMA,

'l! -.- Vii tav!:*.5}

I fr? a '.I-

Cor. Main and Sixth Streets,

erre-Hautef Intl.

We will open at the above well-known stand, Ion the first of March, one of thej^

LARGEST AND BEST

:W-

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Selected Sttifk of

iiu

r,.* 'I/A: ,noi, ij' il •j.ii

SOOTS & SHOES

«au iBiafr-.tO %)i .J .»,•

Ever brought to this market, which we shall sell at the

LOWEST CASH PRICES.

rrtiws ---"u-ti -:ji r-SJIJ --j B. L. & CO,

FLKJJL's.Ju"nj

NATURAL TREAT-

ment, and Radical Care of Spermatorheea, or Seminal Weakness, Involuntary Emissions, Serual Debility, andTmpediineiits to Marriage generally: Nervousness, Consumption, Epileps|r mnd.f its .Mental and.physical Incapacity, resulting from Self-abuse, ie., by ROBT. J. CULVKHWELL,M. D., author of th,e "Green £oek," &o. '*A

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THE DIAMOND GLASSES

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AH kinds of Custom Work and Bepairiag done to order in the most satisfactory manner. febZldwSm.

GRAIN DEALERS.

JOHN HANEY,

i. ,0

Commission Merchant,

And Whplesale and Retail Dealer in all kinds of Grain. Warehouse on North First Street, at Canal Basin, Terre-Haute, Indiana. .,

Strict attention paid to recemne and forwarding (roods. jelsawtf

CARRIAGES.

I. WILDT, LEWIS THOMAS, WILLIAM P0TH3 WILDY, THOMAS ft CO.,

Carriage Manufacturers,

Corner 2d an Walnut Sts, Terre Haute, Ind. Repairing done promptly and at Low Kates

FROM

I b»tmmW OS ,beiii^d

ugs, en-

&c.' Only 75 cents a year, and a superb en rravin# ?'Btaagelino, 1 4x2 feet, orrtto, 30 OOO droalaUon a« it. It is .wide awjffe, fearhMS^tTBthfnl^

Jnr

it ««kw, 75 eta. Sy«r. SfiecimenaJ'ltEE. AddsesS "BANNER," Hinslale. N.

Aromatic A°8et&bl0 Soap

ff&Ghfie Sc'Cog]

vfjmV-HBS* _J lijIrTlttilW?

It WillStrike Terre Haute when

\2L\Y a4 rm years me Stot«

,11

nti orttod 91sw era® bsbftrow

taw -mno*. &nm- i«tnq 0$

lo ... 7. 1

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j'noilSl «ifj iJainaO ,5H',.«oh *»V Iff*!*!'* i,».!• i.

10,000 yards Hamburg

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Opera House Block,

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all

open next

SATURDAY MORNING, MAY -14TH,

With the Cheapest und Most Magnificent Stock of

rer offered outside of our Stores in New York City, except it may

Wayne, in th^ State, where we are now doing tJie largoAt business done by any firm this,^epj^hicago. ,We come among jou. j| ^-y

IN THE fULI. FLUSH 6$ VICTORY,

.i.- J.'. For having met the combined strength and opposition of the hi^h priced merchants in Fort Weyne, imd triumphed, we naturally feel ttiat we are invincible, asd that from th^ we- Openj our Store here will lie. as.they are now in Fort Wayne and New York-—the great resort of the people for the best of goods at the lowest prices.

With fttar Stores all doin£. a large business, buying goods in immense quantitiea for cash w^-hMard nothing lni saying we come to retail goods here at prices that will be often much less. th*n any other Terro .Haute Merchant buys tbem. come io plant the New York market fair aud nquare in Terra Haute, and to give to the'people,

AltWAYS FOB CASH

Irish.U-U Poplins. in Elegant Colors

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Jitil -j'U

Fall.

tiM Viii!) 1 i. f: vr

at Fort

ONLY, an immense amount of Dry

Goods at afeeiH one half the prices charged by other stores. (Extract from a Fort Wayne Paper.) "We understand tliat Foster Brothers, of New York*City, will soon open a large Dry Goods and Carpet Store, at Terre Haute, in this State. If the people of that place knew what we know they would not buy one dollar's worth of goods (until the new firm arrives. When they opened here two years ago, such was the demand for thteir goods, and' so terribly low were their prices, that before 11 o'clock A. M. of the first day, tfaeif, Store wai crowded so full of customers that it became necessary to lock their dobra and refuse admission to the vast crowd outrnde. It yna astonishing! Nothing like it had ever before been seen in the State of Indiana."

We shaU play ttbe pame game here. Within the last few weeks there has been one of the most terrible depreciations in Dry Goods and Carpete-ever known to tha mercantile community. The failures of Dry Goods Houses in New York have been numerous, anti, thousands of dollars' worth of Goods have been sojd for what they would: bring. For the last three weeks we have been carefully selecting from the immense purchases of our $e\v York Stores a share of all kinds of goods bought St these forced sales.. This enables us to say that w'e shall offer on the first day that we arejopen for business, the best bought and most inviting Stock of Dry Goods and Carpets ever offered in the West, with almost everything at 40 per cent, less than the rates other Stores are charging. Therefore we say ,f~

Do not buy a dollars's worth of Dry Goods or Carpets

.jrfiijyj',! l?-»,s. •.. xfindid gootls.

tfnlii jpu ta

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ave seen tJiese spl

Saturday Morning May 14th

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Io\hsus3 ri^rjodjfA I »i ii jjiUt'i lfj.v Vj/iT .is/L'ii'

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Vu for business.

(We

will be open

SPECIAD'? BARGAINS

FOSTERS BROTHERS,

124 Tffain Street, Opera House Block, Terre Haute, Ind.

iOU s:,/! 'Yd IH! Kl JJ flf tsi-.i I ,i.ybb ir s»tl' iiiw n-riU iw»l» ^»ili 10I M»i0o9 t\n*t j'-ni !'s! halHUv* 'JJ "i.fi .bHotii,,?} nai .Wtarll) Olljiil 'jift 'Jl/l

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lo inr+bn*S (»V) i-ri'./j.iJ ,ilo 6ifl ,'*,5- 'i iiorhr* oils v.J {,-' if v.. i'fwi -.i

3Z)E,-sr a-OOIDS

-aid* mi a*&Aia ol «j4 tn •j l.^isuftiii ihjf, i(«., .• i.ij i'i ^ISilh^d Oiil xi su\. 1

9ii? s.M St" JUW. Inn hmnil hi" rid j.

Embroideries

i) :tnuti

-}FMI IMI) JMTFJ

AT VERY LOW PRICES

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Large assortment of Spring Dress Goods on our

TWENTY-FIVE CENT-COUNTER!.

The samp brought from 50 to 60, cents last Season,

•A

VERY JjOWI ia •,'jjitto.f* BI

BLACK A.VD FANCY COLORED DRESS GOODS, Large Assortment front $1,00.

VAN AmburshiGife

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JON .OPENING DAY

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THE MOST POPULAR BRANDS OF

I ?'£!&

At greatly reduced prices.

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jLine of Bcaver Mohairs,

The handsomest Black (foods in the market.

TXJELL, RIPLEY & DEMING&™

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i'.'ff 'ttii oj Vjiu S i?s ,U ,'at & cj(i

afkt

.vtp::.n@°rn€r Main and JFifth Streets.

Jibuti

SEIGHISTS N N CoabiMd with

ciB^U®

S LOWANDA'S BRAZILIAN

CIRCUS TROUPE! H. FK08T, Uanacar. All Powerful Combination eon^oMd of tki

following well known

Alex. Lowanda, Marietta Zanfretta, Natello Lowanda, Geo. Seitrist, Thoa. SelcrUt, Pete Conklin, H. Nichol*, W. Winner.

Mbns. Seiffrist, Clarinda Lowanda, iitinho Lowanda, Aberlarda Lowaada,

lis

Clark Oibbs, Prof. Nash, In the Menagerie Department will be found Elephants, Camels, Three-Honied BuU. Wa* ter Buffalo, Ureat African Hartibeet, White Camets,Lions and Lioness.Leopards.fljrenas, Panthers. Burmese Cattle, Japanese Hora, African Porcupines, Zebra, Badgers, While Peacocks. American Lions, Rooky Mountain Moose. Silver Fox. (Irissly Bear

JiMoa, India

Cattle.Monkeys. Apes .Baboons, Ichneumons, Apt Eaters. Cockatoos, Macaws, Powees, Parrots, Ac., Ac.

The Prooession will enter town at or near 10 o'elock A. led by Professor Sohacht's Opera Band.

C. H. PARNSWORfH, A rent.

Admission

!T! CORN, OAT8,

A E

cants Children aader nine

years of age,

cents. Will exhibit at

T£BR£ HAUTE,

nn\

ON FRIDAY, MAY 13th, 1870.

CHAB. auxAHoxa. K.O.IMP. |j

ALEXANDER & READ,

,i, DSAItEBS EN

FLOUR, MEAL,

AND FEED OF ALL KINDS, Ceratr SIM and Mala Via. Articles delivered to any part of the city free of charge. tdeovsn

W. F.BRISCOE,

DEALER IJf ifo/jfin? :1

Family (groceries, Provisions, Hermetically Sealed Fruits, Vegetables, Oysters, Fish,

Preserves, Jellies, Sauces, Catsup, Pickles and

Country Produce,

Ohio Street between 3d and 4th,

Terre-Haute, Indiana, Goods delivered in the City free of charge. marldly

LEATHER, HIDES, AG. L. A.

aoaxrrr.

-ilisgfi®

JOHK W. MBACHAM.

L. A. BURNETT Sc CO.,

„^18SSp"S,

Leather,HM*s,OUe

fifo* 144 and ]46 Main Street, ThirBAtniJii

Cash for Bides, Fun, Sbeep Pelts, Seer Skins. Tallow. and leather in the Rough.

Consignments always [receive prompt a tention mayfidwtf

COAL.

Coal and Wood.

i.c.nwumiin.iAuict,

Having formed a partiurship under the name ofStunkard A.Barrick, for the sale of Coal and Wood, would respectfully announce to the publio that they will keep constantly on hana and for sale at lowest rates, all kind* of Coal at wholesale and retail, also Wood for the fall and winter trade. j^JBce at Ro.25 Bnntin House, Terre Haute. .All orders for Coal filled promptly. A share or the public patronage is respectfully soUeitedt