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The following is a lilt-ral report ol the statement made concerning tin* public debt, by Hon. D. \V. VHORHEES, in his speech in this city, on the «0th ult. It was taken down at the request of Mr. VOOKHKES himself, and we have it in the baud- writing of the reporter, who avouches its correctness. We have delayed its publication until now, in order to receive the official reports of Mr. lioiiTWELL to put in con trap 'with his statements. Let our friends keep this as a permanent and reliable record.

Mr. VOOUH®"'" .lid: "Sen „«orton nays Gen. Grant's administration has reduced tlie public debt §140,000,000. I ask you Republicans to look at this sheet entitled 'A Statement of the Public Debt of the United States, July 1st, 1870,'—just thirty days ago today. It is signed 'George S. Boutwell, Sivretary of the Treasury.' It was issued by "Mr. lioutwell just before I started for home. In this statement of the public debt we find that the debt bearing interest in coin is placed now at 52,107,950,700. The debt which you are interested in is that which bears Interest, and not the currency of the country that bears ho interest, and accommodates your wants. The public debt which bears heavily upon you is that which bears interest, and that is the portion of the debt we used to talk about. Now 1 ask the reporter to take down my statements: Chi the 1st day of July, 1870, thirty days ago, the public debt bearing interest in coin, was $2,107,950,700. I have now the statement of the public debt made officially by Hugh McCulloch, Kecietary of the Treasury, on the 1st day of'March, 1869, just as Johnson was coming out, and Grant was going in. They say, in the last year they have paid $120,000,000, of the public debt. 1 have shown you what the public debt was thirtv davs ago. 1 will now show vuu what it was nearly seventeen mouth- aoo, -a vear aoi last .March, when Johnson went out ot power, and Grant i.'iuie in, and you can compare the two. How much of the interest-hearing debt has been paid--this loandebt which weighs si, heavilv oil you. this loan debt which fats the bondholder, this loan debt which taxes the people, -what was it on the 1st day of March, J809? --S2,-ti(K',994,(i94.14--being on the 1st day of J111 v, thirty days ago, $9.,(i j0 greater than it was on the 1st day ol March, when Johnson came out ot ollu.v. [Cheers anil applause. 'lliosi- are the official statements,---those are the official papers, as I shall answer to my Maker. And if any Republican, or two or three, are I.ere who doubt my statement 1 will treat them with tho utmost courtesy and kindness to come upon this stand, and examine these papers, and see whether I state this matter eorrectlv or not. 1 challenge denial. You may change livtti column to column, and you may contract the currency that heafs no interest, and call that a pavment of the public debt. 11 examination of this extract will reveal several noteworthy lacts. 1 The tirst is that Mr. VoORHEKS made a blunder in his quotations of ligures, giving the total amount of the principal of the debt Match 1st 1

of only the coin-interest -debt, showing some $500,000,001) decrease, instead of S9ti,000 increase. We give him the ben-

etit of this blunder, to warn him that ac

curacy is required. •J. The second fact is, Mr. YOORHEES repudiates all obligations which do not bear interest as constituting debt. If a man takes up goods on credit, and has them charged sn book account, he don't owe anything but if he gives his note then he is in debt. If this were the personal ethics of Mr. V. his creditors would call him a scoundrel and it is just as villainous a principle in public as in pri

vate affairs. The third fact developed is, that according to Mr. YOORHEES, the public debt is to be reckoned wholly by the number of bonds issued and to allowance is to be made for those paid and cancelled. Thus: The official statement of the public debt lor March 1, 18t!9. gives a list of all the bonds issuedtu that date, on which coin interest was paid, amounting to $2,107,854,050. (The figures Mr. V., intended to quote, but did not.) On the 1st of July 1S70, the total was, $2,107, 850,700, What does this show? Mr. YOORHEES says,—and appeals to God for the accuracy of his figures, not the truth of his statement,—it shows that the coinbearing debt has increased S95.050. But this is a palpable falsehood, because the next column shows that the Treasury has taken up and canceled of this total.$121,429.100. Instead of these official figures

showing that the coin debt is larger than it was at the beginning of GRANT'S ad ministration, they show that it is smaller by the amount of $121,332 450. Every child can see it by the following table

COIN INTEREST DEBT.

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C.in in Treasury Certificates Currency

Actual debt

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Maivli 1. li'.t April. May. .1 line, Jlll. August. Sept. leli.lu-r Nov., Ii.-c.,

.I.UIII.II'Y. 1X7 I'VI.'v.' .Match. April, SlaV.'J11! •. .Tu \. '.

Total.

Still, instead

...52.107,854,050

ju" Additional bonds •,%*"» ioi 490'inn Bonds paid and cancelled te»SS!b===

4. A fourth point in the above speech is the assumption bv Mr. VoORHEES that onlv those payments of the public debt which are made in coin require taxation, or cost the people anything. Hence he throws out all account of bonds bearing currency interest,and all obligations which bear no interest. Here is his Pendletonian squinting. It is proposed to pay all our bonds in greenbacks, and to obtain greenbacks, not by taxes, but by printing as nianv of them as may be necessary, in other words, these two astute statesmen who opposed the issue ol greenbacks when they were necessary to carry on the war, declared they would go forth with the brand of Cain, and lie utterly worthless finding their opposition vain, and their predictions false, and consistent only in their unpatriotic purpose of destroying the credit of the government, now propose to make greenbacks worthless by issuing unlimited quantities! When we ask gentlemen of this school how the government is ever to redeem these thousands of millions of worthless paper, we are coolly told that it never is to be redeemed but left on the people's hands until it wears out, or is burned up, or otherwise lost! If ever a compound of greater folly and villainy was proposed, even by the Democratic party, we do not happen to remember it. The open repudiation of the Mississippi Democracy, was honorable in comparison. •". Still another point in this speech, sometimes more openly asserted, is the closing insinuation that the only reduction there lias been in the publk debt, has been accomplished by a contraction of the currency. The answer to this is found in the following table:

AMOUNT OF CL'ftr.KNCV.

Mar. J, 1809. Legal Tenders &S5a,$94,859 25 Mar. 1, W.i, Fractional Our 30,781,547 50

$392,670,400 75

.luly 1, 1870, Legal Tenders &i-V>,000,000 00 •Inly 1, 1S70, Fract'nal Cur 39,S78,084 4S

§395,878,084 48

Increase S3 202,2

(i. lint. Mr. VoomiEKs' remarks are throughout a tissue of false statements and insinuations,—that kind of falsehood, the meanest of all, which consists in stat ing half the truth, leaving out what is essential to a correct conclusion. Its complete refutation will be found in the following tables compiled directly from official documents sent us from the Treasury office, and for the accuracy of which, both in figures and conclusions, we hold ourselves accountable.

MARCH 1, 1*00.

Debt bonring coin interest §2,107,854,050 00 Debt bearing Currency Int 71,HU,UOO uo liobt bearing no interest. Accrued Int

Total

428,000,654, 14 :t4,u«3,35r u:i

82,till ,058,049 77 .... $G!i,9G5,700 72 *28,775,560 00 10,853,529 04

$115,5114.789 7G 82,525,463.200 01

.III.Y 1, 1870.

Debt bearing Coin Interest §2,107,950,700 00 Debt bearing Currency Interest, 59,545,000 00 Debt hearing no Interest 434,170,427 83 Accrued Interest 50,607,o5b

Tot

„l $2,052,282,084 35 Coin In Treasury 8112,770,048 88 Currency 28,045,007 1.1 Bonds taken up and interest... 124,202,008 54

$ 205,924,084 01 «2,380,358,599 74

Actual Debt Debt by monthly statement

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March 1 April 1, .May 1. June 1, July 1. August 1, Sept. 1, Oct. 1, Nov. 1, Doc. 1. Janmirv 1, I Feb. 1,' Mar. I. April I, May .1. I

1809 ®2,525,403,200 01 .... 2,525,190,401 7-t .. 2,518,797,391 H9 2,505,412,013 12 2,489,002,480- 5H 2,481.500,730 29 2,475,902,501 50 .. 2,408,495,072 It 2,401,131,189 30 2.453,559,735 28 ... 2.448.740,953 31 2,444,813,288 92 2,43S.32S,'177 17 2,432,502,127 74 .. 2,42'i,so4,334 35 2,400,5i2,371 78 2,380,358..V.i'.i 74 2.309,32l.47ii oo

200,798 27 11,399,070 05 13,8X4,777 97 10 410,132 54 7,-13 .,71 I 29 5,001,324 79 7,407,-129 39

7*571^45^ 13 4.Nl2,7Sl 92 3,933,004 39 0.484,811 7". 5,700,3-19 43 17,104,142 82 I 1,301,902 57 20,2o.".,772 ol 17,034,123 7-1

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7. Another significant fact in Mr. Yuor.-

HEES'speech

is his entire silence about

the amount of interest paid by the government. If. as Mr. Y. says, the interest

hearing debt is the oppressive one. the onlv one which concerns the people, and

that is increased, then ot course there is

an increase nf interest. Is this so.' On

the 1st of March, 1S0H. the coin interest was $12-l,25",!!")0 011 the 1st ol July,

1870, it was.SlHi.909.ti0 a reduction of

$7 2S."),7-U. We submit that this reduc

tion is worthy of mention. In another column we publish a letter

from Mr. HoUTWEi.r. 011 this same subject. The ditlerence of figures in hi letter and our tables is from the fact that our statements arc to July 1st. and include Treasury balances, while Mr. 15. gives actual payments to August !.

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ADDRESS TO THE REPUBLI CAN PARTY.

The Republican Congressional Committee on the Fall Campaign.

Who Shall Control the Sext House of Representatives—Fast, Present and Future of Republicanism—The Duty of the Party

To the Republicans of the United States: The Executive and Legislative Departments of the National Government and two-thirds of the State Government have been committed to your keeping. Sucli power carries with it grave responsibilities. The people, as is their ight will hold you to a strict accountability for this great trust. Elections are soon to be held for the National House of Representatives. These elections will determine the political complexion of the popular branch of Congress. They will, too, determine the political character of several States Governments. And these results will be accepted as the verdict ol the people upon the ideas, principles and policies of the Republican party, and upon the measures and character of the ^National Administration. To these responsibilities, and to the gravity of these issues, your thoughtful consideration is invoked.

In the present juncture it behooves the Republican party not to forget its origin, nor its history. Amid the difficulties that beset it, and the responsibilities and labor, which the needs of the country in the new and untried condition of a flairs imposes, it should remember that it was born of the nation's necessities, and thus far it has grandly met the exigencies for which it was formed. Having passed triumphantly through three great eras of its history, it is now summoned to enter upon its "fourth. Gathering, therefore, inspiration from past success, it should grapple hopefully and with unshrinking confidence with the duties of the present and near future.

Recurring to their origin, Republicans will' remember, when tlie land was the the theatre of a stern and irrepressible conflict between the demons of slavery and caste and the spirit of liberty and equality, when the slave power held great interests and powerful organizations in its grasp and ruled the nation with imperial sway, that the founders of the party, instructed by passing events, with convictions deepened and zeal quickened by the teachings of iTistory and of holy writ and inspired by the deathless words of the patriots, statesmen, r--' heroes of our earlier time, rose to the exigencies of the hour, opposed the haughty ambitions, the maddening passions, the cruel prejudices, and the disorganizing theories of the dominating majority, and, although long overborne by numbers, still struggled 011 amid jeers, insults, mobs, blows, and assassinations, till under the lead of Abraham Lincoln they achieved success and grasped the sceptre of political power.

Entering upon its second era, appalling responsibilities at once rose. The slave masters, in the pride and arrogance of power, instantly plunged the nation into the fire and blood of civil war. But the Republican party rose with the crisis. It raised money in unstinted measure, organized vast armies, created powerful na vies, fought bloody battles, crushed the most gigantic rebellion of all recorded history, and saved a nation's life. It was then, amid the clash of arms, that the Republican party saw that slavery was the relentless and unappeasable foe of the country was the inspiration, the heart and soul of that civil war, and that its death would be the annihilation of the rebellion, the unity of theEepnblic, and the development of free institutions. Against cowardly fears, selfish instincts, and unreasoning passions and prejudices, it pronounced the doom of that hideous and horrid system of human bondage, though it was upheld by the aggregated interests of three thousand millions of dollars, hedged about by the accumulated passions and prejudices, prides and ambitions of seven generations, and intrenched within the social, political and ecclesiastical organizations and affiliations of life. By a series of executive and legislative acts it broke the chains and lifted from the lepths of chattclhood uptothe summit of manhood four and a half millions of hapless bondmen, and stood before the nations with their riven fetters in one hand and their title deeds to freedom in the other.

The war ended, the rebellion subdued, the bondmen emancipated, the Republican party entered upon the third era of its evenlful history. Though conquered inns, the rebels did not accept the just, humane and generous ideas ot the victors, nor did they return to their proper allegiance and ioyalty to the Government, i111 still bemoaning the "lost cause thev remained unsubdued in will and unrepentant in spirit and purpose. Though ide free the bondmen were homeless, without property, without employment, -ubject to the cruel laws against free people of color which had aiways disgraced Southern legislation, and in the midst ol a people exasperated by defeat and maddened bv their loss of power still longer to hold and oppress. Properly was swept awav, industry disorganized, society disintegrated, and States were without lawful governments.

Lpon the Republican party devolved the task of reconstruction. To its intrinsic difficulties were added the intense hostility of the ex-rebels, the lingering prejudices long engendered by the slave system, the timid counsels of Conservatism, and the apostasy ol'tlie F.xccutive. Great interests and powerful combinations sought to so reconstruct the South as to place the nower in tlie hands ot the late slavcholding class, and leave the helpless lVeedincn in the abject condition of practical serfdom. Seldom in history has there been imposed upon any body of men a work of greater magnitude or difficulty. The Republicans might haveshrunk from and avoided it. They were sorely tempted to do so. But they resisted the temptation sf official {tower and patronage, the threats of Executive dictation, and all other adverse influences, and with sublime fidelity and courage addressed themselves to the herculean task.

To aid in reorganizing disordered industries, caring for, protecting and instruetingthe emancipated bondmen intlie new duties of their changed condition, the Republicans established the 1' reedmcn's Bureau, which, by the wise expenditure of a few million of dollars, did an incalculable work for order, peace and the rehabilitatioir of Southern society. Toreconstruct rebellious States on the solid basis of equal rights, they gave suffrage to the freedmen in the reconstruction measures. To secure citizenship and civil rights to a wronged and hated race, they proposed and adopted the Fourteenth Amendment, and enacted the bill of Civil Rights. To establish by irreversible guarantees equal political rights and privileges they adopted the Fifteenth Amendment, and as a crowning act for freedom they provided by law for the enforcement of those amendments thus newlv enshrined within the Constitution.

Thus" the Republicans, against the sternest opposition, against misrepresentation, against appalling obstacles, have struggled on until the rebel States, reconstructed on the basis of impartial liberty, have been restored, and the sublime doctrines of the Declaration of Independence made assured and practical realities. In the progress of the ages it has been given to few, in any form or by any modes, to achieve a work so vast, so grand, so beneficent, so sur« to be recorded by historv, and applauded and remembered by coming generations.

Having achieved this grand work, having passed through these three eras of its history, the Republican party, entering

on its fourfj era, was summoned to deal with questions relating to the national debt, thfj currency, finances and taxation, to refovms in the military, naval, and Indian service, and whatever remaining burdens and legacies were left by the WG.r. Concerning these questions there are apparent diversities of interests and real difference of opinion. The solution of some of them is embarrassed by grave difficulties. They require time as well as financial skill and practical statesmanship for their adjustment. Differences of opinion on matters so recondite and complex, in an organization embracing so many men of large intelligence, trained to habits of independent thought, expression and modes of action, are inevitable. They are, indeed, to be expected and desired, for from such freedom of discussion truth is elicited, and proper modes of action are deduced. The men, therefore, who stood so, firmly while in a minority, amid the denunciations, arrogance and scorn of power the men who met the stern exigences of civil war with such heroic courage, who assailed the slave power and extirpated the slave system the men who grappled so successfully with the perplexingand pregnant issues of reconstruction, lifted helpless freedmen up to citizenship, exalted them to the heights of civil and political rights and privileges, and made the nation free in fact as well as in name, should not shrink from the less momentous and less embarrassing question now before them.

Patriotism, principle, the continued existence, reputation and renown of the Republican party, and a due sense of selfrespect and pride of character demand that Republicans now, as in the past, should have faith in this capacity to carry forward to completion reforms so auspiciously begun. it came into being as an organization of reform and progress, and should be ever ready to accept the living issues of the hour, and march abreast, with the spirit of the age, Unaided it has fought the battles of reform with constancy and courage. Nor in the work still before it can it hojw for aid from those who still cling to the traditions of the past, pride themselves 011 their conservatism, and who during the conflicts of the past twentA years, have resisted all reform, and mourned over every eflete and hateful abuse as it tell If there are Republicans who are weary of the ascendancy of a party which has achieved such crowning victories, who are tired of the responsibilities of power, and would relinquish it to other hands, they should remember that there are none worthy to accept it. For surely they cannot fail to see that the Democratic parly, by its policy during the closing years of its power, and by its power and by its blind and unrelenting opposition to reformatory measures while out of power, even now, as if smitten by judicial blindness, refusing to accept the Constitutional amendments as fixed and final, has demonstrated its uttter incapacity for such a trust.

Accustomed to success even against fearful odds, and underrating perhaps the intrinsic difficulties of the (lending issues, many Republicans, looked to General Grant's administration with high expectations Of course, they have been impatient, and not always satisfied with results. But while these expectations have not been fully realized in the action of either the President or of Congress, much has been achieved enough, at any rate, to satisfy them that the difficult problems will be wrought out and the hoped-for results accomplished.

Gen. Grant came into office pledged to maintain inviolate the public faith, reduce the national debt, diminish taxation, appreciate the currency, reform abuses in the civil and military service, and maintain order in the States lately in rebellion. By the combined action of the President, the Heads of Departments, Congress and the General of the army, many abuses have been corr€»?'ed and many- reforms inaugurated. President Grant's Indian policy is bringing forth evidence of its justice, its humanity and its wisdom. The firm, just and generous policy of the Administration toward the States lately in rebellion, has brought much of order and security, and crimes have largely diminished. In the interests of economy the service of thousands of employes, both civil and military, have been dispensed with. The currency has been appreciated in value by tens and scores of millions of dollars, and the national credit has been largely strengthened.

AVithout any increase in the articles subject to taxation, or in the rate of taxation, the revenues of the fiscal year ending the oOth of June, 1870 were nearly tour hundred and nine millions of dollars against less than three hundred and seventy-one millions for the year ending theV.Oth of .June, JHl'9, showing a gain of nearly I liirly-eight millions ol dollars. On the oiherhand, the expenses of the lineal year 1870 were less than those of INt'.ii by more than twenty-nine millions of dollars, thus showing an increased revenue, and saving in expenditures of more than sixlv-seven million- of .liars in the firs' fiscal year oft len. Iran! administration. In the la 10 months of Mr. Johnson's administration, the le-eeipi-s from customs and internal revenue were less than luce hundred and seventytwo millions of dollars. During the first lli months of Gen. tirant's administration, they were more than four hundred and sixty-ninemillions, showing an increase of nearly ninety-seven mil lions of dollars.

Republicans will remember that during 1 he last two years of Mr. Johnson's administration he removed Republicans appointed by Mr. Lincoln and others who adhered to the principles of the Republican party, and appointed Democrats where lie could do so. The character ol these appointments and tliejlemoraii/.ing influence which his opinions and conduct had upon them were seen in the loss of scores of mi llions of dollars of revenue in these years. The large gain in the collection is niainlv due to the determined and avowed purpose of Gen. Grant to secure an honest, administration of the revenue laws and the appointment of Republicans to office earnestly devoted to his economical policy.

During the recent session of Congress taxes have been reduced more than $75,(HHMiilO. The taxes have been removed from transportation by canals and railways, from sales by dealers and manufacturers. The income tax has been reduced to 2' per cent. 011 all incomes above $2,000 and it is to expire at the end of two years. The tax on tea has been re dueed from 25 to 15 cents per pound 011 coffee from 5 to :5 cents and the tax on sugar and molasses has been reduced in the aggregate$12,000,000 per annum. By this reduction of taxation the industries of the people and the necessaries of life have been relieved of burdens amounting to millions. The funding bill is an important financial measure, which contemplates the saving of interest upon the public debt by the exchange of outstanding six per cent, bonds for those of a lower rate of interest, to the amount of twentysix millions and a half a year. AVhilea reduction in taxes transfers the burden of the debt from one year to another, from one generafion to another, a reduction in the rate of interest is an actual saving to the country, not only for the present generation, but for all time. And yet these important and beneficial financial measures, intended to lighten the public burdens, received little countenance and supjiort from the Democratic party, whose responsibilities for the war, its losses, its expenditures, its debts, and its taxation, are so fearfully large.

Not faultless, but high, noble, and glorious, is the record of the Republican party. History will note it, and the world will gratefully remember it. In the light of this brief review of its achievements for patriotssm, liberty, justice, and humanity, should not Republicans, one and all, cling to their grand organization,

rectify its mistakes, correct its errors, and keep it true to its past traditions ana harmony with the enlighteued and progressive spirit of the age? So doiug may they not perpetuate their power until their beneficent principles shall become the accepted policy of the nation?

HENRY WILSON

Chairman of the Congressional Republican Committee. fi, JAMES H. PLATT, Secretary. _,

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"The Hatter,"

New York 'Hat Store.'

Having a competent buyer in JCew urk to select ^uods as sunn ns nianu lectured, 1 atit enabled tu present, at ill tittles, the latest Novelties.

Vf. r/I^TV.

Tfir Hatter.

11 MAift

STRICT. .iill lilom

iVToney Cannot Buy 11/

I'm Sijrht is Priceless

THE DIAMOND GLASSES

.Manufactured bv

.J. K,. srSONCKU & CO., v., Wlii'-h it re now ofttfreil to tin* public, nro pfo nuiiiu'uil hy nil the celebrated of (he Worlil to be the

fftO&T FEBFKiiT, Natural, Artificial help to the human eye ever known. They are ground under their own supervision, from minute Crystal Pebbles, melted together, and derive their name, "Diamond," on account of their hard lies? and brilliancy.'

The Scientific Principle

On which they are constructed brings the core or centre of the lens directly in front ot the eye, producing a clear and distinct visi«n, as in the natural,healthy sight, and preventing all unpleasant sensations, such as glimmering and wavering of sight, dizziness. Ac., pe culiar to all others in use.

They are Mounted iuthc

lines!

-CARPETS! •CARPETS! ^CARPETS!

mumier

In frames of tho best quality of all materials useil lor that purpose.

Their Finish and Durability cannot be surpassed.

CAUTION.—None genuine unless bearing their trade markOstamped on every frame.

J. R. TILLOTSON,

Jeweler and Optician, Sole Agent for Terre Ilaute, Indiana, from whom they can only be obtained. These goods are not supplied to fedlers. at any price. mar'ildwly

Go to V. O. Dickhout's

TRUNK FACTORY

For tlic Latest Style* of TBl'SKN

Leather, Galvanized Iron and Zinc Cover. TR17XKS MADK TO ORDER.

No. 215 Main near, 7th Street.

Trunks Covered and Repaired. jyl5-dtf

If you are Sick Go and See I DH, HABLAND, 188 South 1st Street, bet. Farrlpijton A VliieT

Terre Haute, Indiana. Ho cures Scrofula, Consumption in the incipient stage, Rheumatism, Heart Diseases, Seminal Weakness. Prolapsus Uteri and all Female diseases. Hours of consultation from 9 A. u. t# 5 p. if.

CARPETS!: CARPETS! CARPETS! MATTINGS!

/tiw v.» .IAI ay:

-'«*»,£ lis

Wall Paper!

Wall Paper Wall Paper!

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Wall Paper

Stt Main Street, het

v,-*erS' *-#-**m4M|T-^^g-^PSW^Pg^

From July 1st, until close of the Summer Trade, we shall make

In all of our Departments.

Byce's "Hand-Loom" Carpets!

-T AT

4 4

WINDOW GLASS, WIIITJ: LEAD, OILS, PA1M S,

ITKPENTINE, JAI.MN,VARNISHES, HKCSHES AXI)....

PAINTERS' MATERIAL GENERALLY.

R. BUCKELL, Painter.

CJX Ohio Stfi't 'l, op). jLi» of".-* OHicc. 1 »n .*-«"-i»i »i I

With a large Stock of the above material of the bost quality, carefully selected bv practical to.sts, I am prepaied to soil AT THE LOWEST CASH PRICK

Lend of the best bra title, Kaglt?, Chambers, iVrc., from $S..riU per Mo 11. Mr lass, extra finality, from |er box

A tj cut for Pldte, Stained and Emtimlcil (ilass.

teTSPECIAL TERMS TO TII10 TUADE

Great Clearance-Sale

HOOP SKIRT FACTORY

Ai\» FAM'l KAZAAM,

H'I CH

AHK FOR Tin:

ORIENT

FLAVORING EXTRACTS,

THE PUREST AMI BEST 1 I'SE. jy22d1y

GRAIN DEALERS.

TOHN HANEY,

V* '•».

Commission Merchant,

And Wholesale and Ketail Dealer in all kinds of Grain. Warehouse on North First Street, at Canal Ba9in. Terre-Ifaute, Indiana.

Strict attention paid to receiving and for warding goods. lel&dwtf

'3 K. GIFFORl), Y.S., TRKATSALL I)isfc..Jes of Horses and Cattle

Hospital and Office, corner of 5th and Kaelcstreets. Terre Haute. Ind. ocWwly I

OIL CLOTHS OIL CLOTHS! OIL CLOTHS

Special Priccs OIL CLOTHS!

OIL CLOTHS!

This will give every one an Ar|lT rci jportunity to secure extra- W-LiJ.

RYCES CARPET HALL

Itvee's "Family" Cnrpet!

RYCK'S CARPET MATTINGS:

Willi Paper!

Wall Paper!

111 view or neiv arrangements for the Fall Trade, .NOW i.s the lime fur Housekeepers to make selections Iromthe best Slock of Goods in the Slate. Our Lace Curtains are very choice and very cheap. Fine Mock ot Loifking Glasses at GOLD prices.

liU _L Xlio

MATTINGS

uinary Bargains Al MA TTING-S

of House Furnishing Goods.

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V': 'l ni ~iit i- vri-

MAT TINGS

Window Shades

Window Shades!

Window Shades Window Shades

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Hew York Circus.

Erom the Hippotheatron Iron llusldings, 14th Street, opposite the Academy of Music, New

I world.

Window Shades

IOE. 1

with this establisnieni. A DM ISSIOX Children under 10 years of aire

I Doors open at- and 7 iran I 1 o. xi. J.I fiHfJ-Tiekets si

and 4th .s7.s\

T'RIAH JKFFKRS. IRA DKT.A.NO. KI.ISHA IIAVKN U. R. JEFFERS & CO., Wholesale dealers in Yankee Notions :tn«l (.'igsirs,

And Commission Merchants, No. IIO Main Street,

Keep constantly on hand a full assortment ol

isroTiozsrs, Comprising

Fancy Goods, Dress Buttons, I Combs, Brushes, Jewelry, and Trimmings,

Threads, Needles, Stationery, Hosiery and Cigars, AT WHOLESALE ONLY. arpil-ldwtf I

M. JOAB,

Attorney at Law,'

fe.| 1 Terr Hnutc, Intl. Claims collected and l.-.tatos .Managed.

OFKICK—OIL

\or B-IKST IUIEFCTOK

AT TERRE HAUTE,

Th a A Performance Atternonii at Kveninu ,-«i It should le distincly understood that tlu establishment is

THE OMl l-IRSTCL\SS iWh

in America pcrniancrtly established in a lor^c city, conducted in metropolitan style, and whi.-h ha? aci.uircd a metropolitan reputation With the New York Circus will be t..uu.| th* name uf 1'I,LK

CAROL INK HOLLAND,

bey..ML all qucti«-n the

UI«»M »N«1

accomplished lady ruler living, who ex-nitcs all her wonilemiic P!"bt:' trom a 15

IA CI. IfuK.'-K.

TIM" IJRKAT MKLYILLI:, (Willi ltis h:lmli:ic 11! 1.!li 1 M,, whose daring barebat Steeple Chase Act i--I rendered him celebrated throu^ln.m

ROBERT STICK.N

The Champion Equestrian, without exception the best general performer wlm has ever lived, whether in his astounding feats upon a sin-lc horse, rr in his superb act upon Four I:-ie-back Steeds—thus presenting the

1IIRKI BFST Pi!DIUS l\ UiHiin

ilillS'lSii illiii

In one Company, not lie equaled world.

a. combination which c:ii.in any l-.rinestrian in tlie

ENTI,AM.

TheUrcat American Ch.wii

WILLIA3I OMfA S. 1 he Champion Trick Cimvn

I I W I I I A S

'l'he Ircatc«t of English .!e=terr-: —W1T11-

A I'irll and Eljiciral i'oi'jt. A rro'mts. Forming an array n: I'lltST t'E.ANh Ml KM' in every department ot Ki|iie trian and Acrobotic art never before equaled on this continent. One of the greatest leatures of the Vork Circus is I a a a I a ait ft. Herd Hand.

This Hand is

TIIKKK HMK3 A* T.AKIIR

as any

band ever attached to any other Circus, and will parade the principal streets about

II'.j

A. M., iu the largest, most massive and elaborrtely carved and decorated anri:x /i us or.

Even constructed, and dran by The llatHisuiiit'sf Irani '2 !ier«ii that the world can produce. The uui toi-r.i ol this Land is in the stylo of the French 1 niperiaI Cent Garde, being gorgeous beyond de-, I si iption, Xo Catchpenny Side .Show allmv-: I .. I in 4 4 1

oil cents

Entree at

Id iri advance at L. 1. to:

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I I E E W O I mi.]. i:xmi:iT AT IMIilS 11,1-.. Aug. J7Ui

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