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The following i.'i a literal ifjxitt of the statement 11:iI*' cnnceiiiiniC the public debt, by

VOORHEES, in hi-,

speech in this city, oil llic .JOili nit. It is taken (lown at the rc|Ut'st ot Mr. VOORHEES himself, and we have it in the hand-writing of the reporter, who avouches itn correctness. liav*' delayed its publication until now, in order to receive the official reports ol Mr.

BOUTWET.T,

statements: On 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, Secretary 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. I have shown you what the public debt was thirty days ago. I will now show you what" it was nearly seventeen months ago,—a year ago last March, when Johnson went out of power, and Grant came in, and you can compare the two. How much of the interest-bearing debt has been paid—this loan debt which weighs so heavily on you.—this loan debt which fats the* bondholder,—this loan debt which taxes the people,—what was it on the 1st day of March, 1869?—$2,606,994,694.14—being on the 1st day of July, thirty davs ago, $95,650 greater than it was on the 1st day of March, when Johnson came out of office. [Cheers and applause.] Those are flie official statements,—those are the official papers, as I shall answer to my Maker. And if any Republican, or two or tlute, are here who doubt my statement 1 will treat them with the. utmost courtesy and kindness to come upon this stand, and examine these papers, and see whether 1 stale this matter correctlv or not. I challenge denial. You may change Irom column to column, and you may contract the currency that bears no interest, and call that a payment of the public debt.

An examination ofthis extract will reVeaI -everal noteworthy facts. 1 The first is that Mr. VOORHEES made a blunder in his quotations of figure: giving the total amount of the principal of the debt Maich 1st

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of only the coin-inlere.it debt, showing some $50i),000,0i0 decrease, inslead of S96,t»H) increase. We give him the benefit ofthis blunder, to warn him that accuracy is required.

The second fact is, Mr. \oor.lIRES

repudiates all obligations which do not bear interest as constituting debt. It a man takes up goods on credit, and has them charged on book account, lie don owe anything but if he gives his note then he is in debt. If thi-a were the personal ethics of Mr. V. his creditor? would call him a scoundrel and it i- ju^t as villainous a principle in public as in pri

vate a Hairs. o. The third tact developed is, that according to Mr. VOORHEES, the public debt is to be reckoned wholly by the nuin ber of bonds issued and

no allowance in

to be made for those paid and cancelled. Thus: The official statement of the public debt for March 1, 18C.9, gives a list of all the bonds issued to that date, on which coin interest was paid, amounting to $2,107,8"i4,050. (The figures Mr.

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tended to quote, but did not.) On the 1st of July 1870, the total was, $2,107, 850,700, What does this show? Mr. VOORHEES 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 $9o,650. 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

oliow ing that the coin debt is larger than it was at the beginning of GRANT'S administration, they show that it is smaller by the amount of $121,332450. Every child can see it by the following table:

COIS INTEBEST DEftX.

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sometimes more open closing insinuation thai, the on lion there ha.s been in the public debt, has been accomplished by a contraction of the currency. The answer to this is found in the following table:

July 1, 1S70, l-egal Tenders.. July 1, 1S70, Fnct'niil Cur

pur in contrast with his .'statements. Let our friends keep this as permanent and reliable record.

Mr. VOORHEES said: "Senator Morton says Gen. Grant's administration has reduced the public debt *140,000,000. I ask. you Republicans to look at thi« sheet entitled 'A Statement of thi Public Debt of the United States, July 1st, 1870,'—just thirty days ago today. It Is signed 'George S. Bout well, Secretary of the Treasury.' It was Issued by Mr. Boutwell 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 $2,107,950,700. The debt which you are interested in is that which bears interest, and not the currency of the country that bears no 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 I ask the reporter to take down my

T£S5?.. $2,641,058,049 77

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Bonds paid and cancelled Leaving unpaid 121 33* 450 Decrease 4. A fourth point in the above speech is the assumption by Mr.

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only those payments of the public debt which are made in coin require taxation, or cast 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 many of them as may be necessary. In other words, these two astute statesmen who opposed the issue of greenbacks when they were necessary to carry on the war, declared they would go forth witli the brand of Cain, and be 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 he 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. 5. Still another point in this speech, "y assorted, is the red

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Mr. VOORHEES' remarks are

throughout a ti.-sne of false statements and insinuations,—that kind ol falsehood^ the meanest of all, which consists in staling half the truth, leaving out what is essential to a correct conclusion. Its complete refutation will be found in t)ie following tables compiled directly trom official documents sent us from the Treasury office, and for the accuracy of which, both in figures and conclusions, we hold ourselves accountable.

MARfll 1, 1809.

Tk*ht Inarms ooin interest $2,107, Debt bearing Currency Int .0iVJ,n'/si' Debt bearing no interest 4f»rued Int «i4,OO.J,4i*

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4^4,179,427 8.3

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$2,052,282,084 35

Coin in 'rreastiiy Sn2,77fi,MS 88 Currency 28,94.i,0b7 1.' Bonds taken up and interest... 124,202,908 54

$ 2115,924,084 01

Actual Debt ?2,380,358,599 74

Debt by monthly statement.

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$2,525,403,200 01 .. 2,525,19«,401 71

.. 2,518,797,391 09 .... 2,505,412,013 12 .• 2,489.002,480 58 .. 2,48U500,730 29

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.... 2,401,131,189 30 .... 2,453,559,735 28 2.448,746,953 31 2,444,813,288 92 2,438,328,477 17 2,432,502,127 74 .. 2,420,804,334 35 2,406,5*2,371 78 .. 2,386,358.599 74 ... 2,309,324,470 00

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May, Jmil*, July, August, •Sept. (Mober, Nov., Dee., January, 1870 Feb'

S 200,798 27 .... 6,399,070 05 13,384,777 97 16,410,132 54 7,435,744 29 5,004,324 79 .. 7,467,42a 39 7,303,882 75 7,571,454 13 4,812,781 92 3,933,664 39 0,481,811 75 5,760,:i49 43 17,464,142 82 14,301,962 47 20,2113,772 04 17,034,123 71

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7. Another significant fact in Mr. VOOR

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his entire silence about

the amount of interest paid by the g"Vernmenl. If, as Mr.

says, the interest

bearing debt is the oppressive one, the only one which concerns the people, and lhal is increased, then ol course there is an increase of interest. Is this so? On the 1st of March, 1869, the coin interest was $]24,2-V,!'»)() on the 1st of daily, 1870, it was SI 1 a reduction of S7 285,746. We submit that this reduction is worthy of mention.

In another column we publish a letter from Mr. fioi'TWEi.i. on this same subject. The difference of figures in his letter and our tables is from the fact that our statements are to July 1st, and include Treasury balances, while Mr. h. give^actual payments to August 1.

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To the Republicans of the United States:

The Executive and Legislative Departments of the National Government and two-thirds of the Stale Government have been committed to your keepyig. Such 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 ef 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 of 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 la bor, which the needs of the country in the new and untried condition of affairs imposes, it should remember that it was born of the nation's necessities, syid 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. liecurring lo 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, inslrucled by passing events, with convictions deepened ami zeal quickened by the teachings of history and ol holy writ and inspired bv the deathless words of the patriots, statesmen, and 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 on amid jeers, insults, mobs, blows, and assassinations, till under the lead of Abraham Lincoln they achieved succcss 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 lire and blood of civil war. But the Republican party rose with the crisis. It raised money in unstinted measure, organized vast armies, created powerful navies, 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 the Republic, 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 pf life. By a series of executive and legislative acts it broke the chains and lifted from the depths of chattelhood up to the summit of manhood four and a half millions of hapIcrf. bondmen, and stood before the nations with their riven fetters in one^ hand and their title deeds to freedom in the olhc..

The war ended, the rebellion subdued, the bondmen emancipated, the Republican party entered upon the third era of, its eventful history. Though conquered by arms, the rebels did not accept the just, humane and generous ideas of the victors, nor did they return to their proper allegiance and loyalty to the Government, but still bemoaning the "lost cause" they remained unsubdued in will and unrepentant in spirit and purpose. Though made free the bondmen were homeless, without property, without employment, subject to the cruel laws against free people of color which had always disgraced Southern legislation, and in the midst of a people exasperated by defeat and maddened by their loss of power still longer to hold and oppress. Property was swept away, industry disorganized, society disntegrated, and States were without lawful governments.

Upon the Republican party devolved the task of reconstruction. To its intrinsic difficulties were added the intense hostilily of the ex-rebels, llie lingering prejuliccs long engendered by the slave system, the timid counsel- ol Conservatism, ind the apostasy of the Executive. Great nt crests and powerful combinations sought to so reconstruct the South as to ilace the liower in the hands of the late laveholding class, and leave the helpless I'reedmen in the abject condition ol practical serfdom. Seldom in history has here been imposed upon any body of men ,work of greater magnitude or difficulty. The Republicans might haveshrimk from and avoided it. They were sorely templed to do so. Hut they resisted the temptation of official power and patronage, the threat.- of Executive dictation, and all other adverse inlluenees, and with sublime fidelity and courage addressed them-

Ives lo the herculean task. To aid in reorganizing disordered industries, caring for, protecting and intruetinglhe emancipated bondmen in the new duties of their changed condition, the Republicans established the Freedmen's Bureau, which, by the wise expenditure of a few million of dollars, did an incalculable work for order, peace and the rehabilitation of Southern society. To reconstruct rebellious States on (he solid basis of equal rights, tliev gave sullrage to the fieedmen 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 sruarantees equal political rights and privileges they adopted the Fifteenth

Amendment, and as a crowning act for freedom thev provided by law for the enforcement of those amendments thus newlyvenshrined 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 sure to be recorded by his torv, and applauded and remembered by coming generations.

Having achieved this grand work, hav.ing passed through these three eras of its Hiistorv, the Republican party, entering

on its fourth era, was summoned to deal with questions relating to the national debt, the cnrrency, finances and taxation, to reforms in the military, naval, and Indian service, and whatever remaining burdens and legacies were left by the war. Concerning these questions there are apparent diversities ^ot' 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 statesman ship for their adjustment. Differences of opinion on matters so recondite and complex, in an organization embracing so many men ol 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 couiage, who assailed the slave power and extirpated the slave system the men who grappled so successfully with the perplexing and 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 self* respect and pride of character demand that Republicans now, as in the past, should have faith in this capacity to carry. forward to completion reform# so auspiciously begun. It came into being as an organization .of reform and progress, and should lie 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 hope for aid from those who still cling to the traditions of the past, pride themselves on their conservatism, and who (luring the conflicts of I he past, wentC years, have resisted all reform, and mourned over every elTete and hateful abuse as it. lei I If tiiere are Republicans who are weary of I he ascendancy of a, party which has achieved such crowning victories, who are tired of I lie 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, bv its policy during the closing years of its power, and by ils power and by its blind and unrelenling opposition to reformatory measures while out of power, even now, as if smitlen Injudicial blindness, refusing to accept the Constitutional amendments as fixed and linai, has demonstrated its ntttcr inc.ipacify for Mich a trusl.

Accustomed to success even against fearful odds, and underrating perhaps the intrinsic difficulties of the pending 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 he wrought out and (he 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 corrected^ 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 cnrrency has been appreciated in value by tens and scores of millions of dollars, and the national credit has been largely strengthened.

Without any increase in the articles subject to taxation, or in the rate of taxation, the revenues of the fiscal year ending the 30th of June, 1870 were nearly four hundred and nine millions of dollars against less than three hundred and seventy-one millions for the year ending the 30th of June, 1869, showing a gain of nearly thirty-eight millions ot dollars. On the other hand, the expenses of the fiscal year 1870 were less than those of 1869 by more than twenty-nine millions of dollars, thus showing an increased revenue, and saving in expenditures of more than sixty-seven millions of dollars in the first fiscal year of Gen.Grant's administration. In the last 16 months of Mr. Johnson's administration, the receipts from customs and internal revenue were less than three hundred and scvenlvtwo millions of dollars. During the first 16 months of Gen. Grant's administration, they were more than four iiindred and sixty-nine millions, showing in increase of nearly ninety-seven milions of dollars.

Republicans will remember that dning the last two years ol Mr. Johnson ulministiaiion he removed Republicans ippointed bv Mr. Lincoln and others who ulhereil to tlie principles of the Kepnbican party, and appointed Democrats where lie could do so. The character ol be appointments and the demoralizing nflnence which his opinions and conduct had upon them were seen in the loss ol cores of millions of dollars ot revenue in hese vears. The large, gain in the coleetioii is mainly due to the determined mid avowed purpose ot Gen. Grant to sean honest administration of the revenue laws and theappoinlment of Republicans to ollice earnestly devoted to his economical policy.

During the recent session of Congress taxes have been reduced more than SS7-V 0(10,0(10. The taxes have been removed from transportation by canals and railways, from sales by dealers and manufacturers. The income tax has been reduced lo 2V per cent, on all incomes above $2,000 and il is to expire at the end of two years. The tax on tea has been reduced from 2") to 15 cents per pound on flee from to 3 cents and the tax on sugar and molasses has been reduced in the aggregate$12,000,000 peFannum. l'»y 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. While a reduction in taxes transfers the burden of the debt from one year to another, from one generation

be.

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 support 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 ofthis brief review of its achievements fot patriotssm, liberty, justice, and humanity, should not Republicans, one and all, cling to their grand organization, rectify its mistakes, correct its errors, and

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keep it truo to its past traditions and in harmony with the enligbteued and pro* gressive spirit of the age? So dofug rtay they not perpetuate their power until their beneficent principles shall becom the accepted policy of the nation

HENRY WILSON.

Chairman of the Congressional Republican Committecr

JAMES H. PLATT,

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Ai a rule, tho perfumes now in use have no permanency. An lrour or two after their use there is no trace of perfume left. IIow different is the result succeeding the use of

Murray & Lnniiiait's Florida Water. Days after its application the handkerchief exhales a most dolightful, delicate and agreeablo fragrance. may 5deodey

a «TKHIR!

Eyce's

.hii

what that tomdhing toil

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'ra

it nil

ZP.Tt

•AT, Uthhi'l

I Ituu Mtl

.'ft.

Central Engine House,

All workientrusted to us will receive promp attention. Special attention giver to Sign Painting and Graininr. dly

O. C. ALI-EJf, "The

Hatter,"

New York

'Hat

Store.'

Having a competent buyer in New York to select goods as soon ns manufactured, I am enabled to present, at ill times, the latest Novelties.

"The Hatter,

14a MIN STREET. iul 4d6m

Money Cannot Buy It'

For Night is Priceless!!

THE DIAMOND GLASSES

.Maniiliicluie-d by

4. K. NTKNCKK & 0., N. V., Which are now otTered to the public, are pro

IIMIIICL-d

PEBFKfT,

Natural, Artificial help to the human eye over known. They are ground under their own siij'tfirvisioii, from minute Crystal Pebbles, meWed together, and derive their name,

Diamond," on account "f their liarilnesf and 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, visiwn, as in the natural,healthy sight, and preventing all unpleasant sensations, such as glimmering and wavering of sight, dizziness, Jtt?., pe

to all others in use.

Tliey a Moil iitctl

the Ii

est ma

iicr

In frames of the best (|iiality of all materials used for that purpose.

Thoir Finish and Durability cannot be surpassed. CAUTION —None genuine unless bearing their trade niitrkostamped on every Iraiue,.

J. R. TILLOTSON,

Jeweler and Optician, Sole Ageni lor Tcrre Haute, Indiana, from whom they can only be obtained. These goods are not supplied to Pedlers. at any price. marUldwly

Oo to V. (T. Dickliout'S

iTRiNKFACTOKI

A'o. 215 Main near 7th Street.

Trunks Covered and Repaired. jyl5-dtf

If you are Sick Oo and See DR. HARLAN 13

188 Sooth lftt Street, bet. Karri««rto« Time.

Terre Haute,Indiana.

He cures Scrofula, Consumption in the incipient 8tue, Rheumatism, Heart Diseases, Seminal Weakness. Prolapsus Uteri and all Female diseases. Hoars of consultation from

A. u. to 5 p. m. „v A *.t!

t-T

iJ-il IMIv* JEt

77.

~~t Ffnio July, 1st, until, the Close of the Summer Trade, we shall make

Special Priccs

•JO

if I ol ti leaf ",7 """*7

'y'-t x*1"-'-"! -I*

ff JJJI-.'WO,' .'1

l»Wi '3*1

ifif it /,

tu,

iSt&Saii

MATTINGS!

Wall Paper! Wall Paper Wall Paper! Wall Paper! Wall Paper! Wall Paper!

VLIRIH.S SIS -FIIFISJ- ,"I:

"Hand-Loom"

11 JHStKi" ti t* M. S-M

uli

lis ti ix. iy

L. JtL

from Uie best Stock of Goods

tains are very choice and

tu..

njs vi

WINDOW ULASS, WII1TK LEAD, OILS, PAINTS, TURPENTINE, JAPAN,VARNISHES, BRUSHES ANI)/ PAINTERS' MATERIAL UKXKRAMA

R. RUCKELL,

Oliio Sti'OPl, o|). Mayor'p OflifMi,

•ti U. tua. rrtiivr.- ^u-, ... »»"'.«' u.. il* With a largo Stock of tho above material of the bost quality, carefully selected by practical tests. I am prepared to sell AT THE LOWEST CASH PRICE.

While Lead of the best brands, Kagle, Chambers, iVc., fronr.V.!.....$S..~0 per ion ll Window Ilass, extra quality, from $:!.."o

Atfciit for Plate, Stained mtfl Enameled Mass.

W SPECIAL TKHMS TO T11E ADI:.

S- .tin I

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Great

rw-ix"* al "3J6&& It/ vai i-niL

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HOOP SKIRT FACTORY

»i ft r*t

-o

li it'll

liil.UMH*

it. Ur

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iff- uiii i' hvt f- 1. *.* -jrvY if

HU Main" Street, bettecvn

=t,'

ten

'{-•i' 1

!.-ii £. VI *1

i'l

-.itll'.ii*! iUtlff/ji

A O I

ORIENT

For the .Lntcat Sl.yles of TKI'XKS

Leather, Galvanized Iron and Zinc Cover. TRVXHN

MADE TO ORIIER.

FLAVORING EXTRACTS,

THK I'l HRST AMI HKST IN* ISt. j\-22dly

K. OlFFORD, V.S.,

TREATS ALL 1

Dise^ jes of Horses and Cattl*

Hospital and Office, corner of 5tb and I Earlestreets.Terre Haute. Ind. oetOwly I

CRAIN DEALERS.

rOHN HANEY,

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

Strict attention paid to receiving and forwarding goods. iel8dwtf

CLOTHS uC

iOTHS! OTHS!

In all of our Departments. This will give every one an

opportunity to secure extra-

lie

ordinary Bargains in all kinds 71.f

of House Furnishing Goods.

RYCE'S CARPET HALL

IWS

J**

iinrr-'i

Ryce's

"Family" .Carpet! f. L,

ui- -•.-•H,

RYCE'S CARPET HALL!

I mLS .» In

•l

view of new arrange-

N&W8 ii 3 the time for liouse-

a iP

Carpets!

MATTINGS!

Window Shades!

Lo7kit'T-.a£"'e:.f(!oi:o Window Shades! "rices Window Shades! 77. -'''Window Shades

M:!" ?c a-j'./i"..,

stf. a a I feac Mt'

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-.'in to 'i V? tfl KiSit «|B: iiiis

ITI-NI UTOII hii, I*- ,.i

Clearance

Salo

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KI.ISRA ^pl'KN

U. R. JEFFfiRS & CO.,

Wholesale dealers in

Van

kit* Notions and (Jigars, And Commission Merchants,

IVo. 140 Miiin Street, Keep constantly 011 hand a full assortment ol

tTOTlOlCTS,

Comprising

fancy Goods, Dross Buttons, Combs, Brushes, Jewelry, and Trimmings, Threads, Needles, Stationery,

Hosiery and Cigars,

AT WHOLESALE ONLY.

arpil-ldwtf

tui'i

Commission Merchant,

M.M

JOAB,

Attorney at Law,

Terre Haute, Ind.

Clalai collected aad Estate* Xitiftd. OFFICK—On Ohio street, south side, between 3d and 4th streets. jy6w6m '»Vf *ii */,•! ,nH"

ATTORNEYS.

JOBS P. BATRD, OMA Rf.ltSCRPVT.'

gAIRD & CEDFT,

THg

jOTH§

ATTORNEYS AT LAW,

OnriCS-No. 82Main Street.up stairs.

EP.

A WinTftTfS-St

J. J. I

BEAUCHAMP, ATTOBNEY AT LAW MAIN STBEET, IP ST

IFester*

1 ..

JUT inx

A IKS.

Land Broker, Loan#

-neootiated,Estates Managed.

Particular attention riven to Collections. Correspondence solicited from non-residents

ARCHITECT.

ARCHITECT & BUILDER.

J. A. VRYDAG1I,

Plans.Specifications, Superintendanee, and Detail Drawings furnished for every description of Bnildinss.

OFFICE—Northeast corner of Wabash and Sixth Streets. 2d story. Demine Block.

A Business Man Wanted

A general agent is required by one of the most successful Life Insurance Companies of New York City. A gentleman well qualified for the business can secure important territory and a valuable contract by addressing, with information nnd references. Life Company, BoxG94 Post Oflirc, New York City. t. teod3t.

SUMMER COMPLAINT

-AN l»-

^13T.

Painter,

Roofing Slato,

Pelt and

-1 il

asf

cii ftOX/c nt. a it

A ,k

5 ,r i-

Hnmkor's

Ciirniinathv lialsjun

NKVER FAILS to cure Summer Complaint in children or Chronic Diarrluva in adult*. It is indispensable fur infant.*. lMi.vsii-i:ins acknowledge it to lie the best Carmiiicilh ever brought before ttie public. Snld. whoK--sale and retail, bv

^1. A. DAVIS & CO.,

.MAIN .VTKKK'l,

iy!M\vii Sole Airenfs inr Terre ilaui

CLIFT & WILLIAMS,

ii-i i':" Ajrents and Dealers in

John's Patent Asbestos Hoofing, Roek River Paper Co's

Ktulding

vii h„'i

Cemcnf

Roollng,

Chicago Elastic- Stone Roofing, L*A I'KKS.

used in the place of I'la.-N-nni

on the inside, and f»r Sheathing nndi-r ilit sidiuif on ilie oui.-idc. Itoiils applied in city and country .in• warranted. Cull on us at the I'rairie tjjiv Planing Mills, corner ol i'th and .Miill)err streul.-. mavIMti

IAMKS U.LYNK,,

Wholesale and Ketnil dealer in

Pare Copper Distilled Ken

Wliiskjr

tueky

'.H,-

ax''

Foreign and Dotnestii' II intn

and

NTo.

UL-UIMci -rp tan

Main St., bet. 3d and

4tb

r-i

TERRE-HAUTE, IND.

rlGwlv)

MI3T/roX,

Cor. 6th,

Ai:i

LRFHYEUE AIKI

I.OCUMI

SI*.,

lerre-Haute, Ind.

Does Graining, Paper Hanging, Calciinining, and everything usually done in the line. uneL'odl

ADVERTISING

Does it Pay to Advertised

The

Suecoss

-I

Does it Pay to Advertise?

of Our Most

uent iliiainea:)

Promi-

Men

is Ample

Proof that

IT DOES PA 1.

Much lia? Men written in re^aril t.

IIIK

and

Its Advantages,

A nd niiieli can yet lie written in proot of tho firvprfii.n th:it ||io-:ewhi.

*. $ X'Jf-

Advcrtisc Most

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In f{tishi(\fs ICntci'pfixes.

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Advertisiiiii: Truisms.

IT UKV1VES HIS1XS«

IT C'REiTES BL'SWEKS,

i- IT PBESERTES BL'SIXKSS, »«c

\V-:)

IT 1XCBEASKS BUSINESS,

IT IIXSI KKS Bl'SISESS

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Thouaaadii af rortaaeii hare heea tuade i} parsons who possessed the secret »f placing their butine :s in a proper manner betoro the public,)hroughjudicioos newspaper advertis-.

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